Satellite-crash over Alaska

On the 11.2.09 two big satellites, one from the USA and an old one from Russia, crashed in 800km height. The problem is that this leaves a big cloud of space junk, which can break other satellites and even damage the ISS and kill people. However, this is not very likely, because there where also much other crashes in space, but this one was the biggest one until wow.
This crash did not have to do anything with the relationship between the two countries. it was just an accident. On the other hand, did also something happen in 2007, which wasn’t an accident: China shot down an American TV-satellite, just for fun? One year later, the USA made them self the same fun with a Chinese spy – satellite.



This is earth with all the satellites:


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