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2009 satellite collision

Took place on February 10, 2009

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The 18th anniversary falls on February 10, 2027, in 109 days.

On February 10, 2009, two communications satellites—the active commercial Iridium 33 and the derelict Russian military Kosmos 2251—accidentally collided at a speed of 11.7 km/s (26,000 mph) and an altitude of 789 kilometres (490 mi) above the Taymyr Peninsula in Siberia.

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