[FPSPACE] Russian Satellite Failure Caused By Space Garbage

[Chris Jones]

On Wednesday 19 April 2006 13:32, LARRY KLAES wrote:
> Just like with their first Venus and Mars probes, whose failures were
> blamed on an errant meteoroid collision rather than any failure of the
> Glorious Soviet People's Space Technology.
> 
> But with all the debris in Earth orbit, it is bound to happen sooner
> or later.

Sooner than that, it's already happened.  See http://satobs.org/satclose.html 
and http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=16201 for reports of 
collisions involving satellites that just happened to cross paths.