Satellite collisions

2009 collision between the Iridium 33 and Cosmos-2251 satellites

USA-193, also known as NRO Launch 21 (NROL-21 or simply L-21), was a United States military reconnaissance satellite (radar imaging) launched on 14 December 2006. It was the first launch conducted by the United Launch Alliance (ULA). Owned by the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), the craft's exact function and purpose were classified. On 21 February 2008, it was destroyed as a result of Operation Burnt Frost.

Russian Strela-2M satellite

Soviet artificial satellite destroyed by ASAT missile

communications satellite operated by Iridium Communications

Fēngyún (FY, ) are China's meteorological satellites. Launched since 1988 into polar Sun-synchronous and geosynchronous orbit, each three-axis stabilized Fengyun satellite is built by the Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology (SAST) and operated by the China Meteorological Administration (CMA). To date, China has launched twenty-one Fengyun satellites in four classes (FY-1 through FY-4). Fengyun 1 and Fengyun 3 satellites are in polar, Sun-synchronous orbit and Low Earth orbit while Fengyun 2 and 4 are geosynchronous orbit.

{| class="toccolours" style="width: 25em; float: right; clear: right; margin: 0 0 1em 1em;" |- !colspan="2" style="text-align: center; background: #FFDEAD;" | Spektr Module |- |colspan="2" style="text-align: center;" |310pxThis shot of Spektr was taken after the collision with the Progress spacecraft. Note damage to solar arrays. |- !colspan="2" style="text-align: center; background: #FFDEAD;" | Module statistics |- |Mission name||Mir |- style="vertical-align: top;" |Launch||May 20, 199503:33:22 UTCLC-81/23, Baikonur Cosmodrome, LC 81L, USSR |- style="vertical-align: top;" |Launch vehicle||Pro

Ecuadorian satellite

former NASA spacecraft which tested autonomous navigation and rendezvous

P78-1 or Solwind was a United States satellite launched aboard an Atlas F rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on February 24, 1979. The satellite's mission was extended by several weeks, so that it operated until it was destroyed in orbit on September 13, 1985, to test the ASM-135 ASAT anti-satellite missile.

anti-satellite missile test conducted by China

BLITS (Ball Lens In The Space) is a Russian satellite launched on September 17, 2009, as a secondary payload on a Soyuz-2.1b/Fregat, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The satellite is totally passive and spherical, and is tracked using satellite laser ranging (SLR) by the International Laser Ranging Service. The design of BLITS is based on the optical Luneburg lens concept. The retroreflector is a multilayer glass sphere; it provides uniform reflection characteristics when viewed within a very wide range of angles, and can provide a cross-section sufficient for observations at low to

French military reconnaissance satellite

Russian uncrewed cargo spacecraft of 1997

Microsat-R was claimed to be an experimental imaging satellite manufactured by DRDO and launched by Indian Space Research Organisation on 24 January 2019 for military use. The satellite served as a target for an anti-satellite test on 27 March, 2019.