
NASA's Terra Satellite Moved to Avoid Chinese ASAT Debris
News Type: Event — Seeded on Fri Jul 6, 2007 11:45 AM EDT
Article Source: Space.comFlight controllers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center had to maneuver the Terra environmental spacecraft in late June to avoid orbital debris created by a Chinese anti-satellite (ASAT) weapon test early this year.
A defunct Chinese weather satellite called Fengyun 1-C was orbiting at roughly 850 kilometers when it was destroyed Jan. 11 by a kinetic energy ASAT weapon, producing a cloud of debris that is tracked by the U.S. military's Space Surveillance Network.
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