Tabrakan satelit 2009

Replika satelit Iridium

Tabrakan satelit 2009 adalah tabrakan antar satelit pertama di orbit Bumi. Tabrakan ini terjadi pada pukul 16:56 UTC tanggal 10 Februari 2009, pada ketinggian 789 km[1] di atas Semenanjung Taymyr di Siberia. Satelit yang bertabrakan adalah satelit Amerika Serikat Iridium 33 dan satelit Rusia Kosmos-2251.[2][3][4] Kedua satelit tersebut bertabrakan pada kecepatan 11.7 km/s.[5][6]

Referensi

1. "Collision Between Two Satellites". Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 2009-02-16. Diakses tanggal 2009-02-20. 
2. Jonathan McDowell. "Jonathan's Space Report No. 606". Diakses tanggal 2009-02-17. Strela-2M satellites had lifetimes of around 3 years, and Gen. Yakushin of the Military Space Forces was quoted in Moscow Times as saying Kosmos-2251 went out of service in 1995. 
3. "U.S. Satellite Destroyed in Space Collision". Space.com. 
4. "Satellites Collide, Put Space Station at Risk". The Washington Post. February 11, 2009. 
5. Paul Marks, New Scientist, Satellite collision 'more powerful than China's ASAT test, 13 February 2009 (putting the collision speed at 42,120 kilometres per hour (11.7 km/s))
6. Mark K. Matthews (2009-02-13). "Crash imperils satellites that monitor Earth". Orlando Sentinel. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 2009-02-16. Diakses tanggal 2009-02-17.  (reporting it as "what amounted to a 26,000 mph [(7.7 miles/sec)] collision").

Pranala luar

• Rachel Courtland. "Satellite crash prediction is plagued with uncertainty". New Scientist. Diakses tanggal 2009-02-13. 
• Animations and graphic renderings of the collision Diarsipkan 2009-02-17 di Wayback Machine.
• Satellite Crash animation on Google Earth
• Satellite Crash Animation in 3D with Google Earth Diarsipkan 2009-02-16 di Wayback Machine.