Research Notes: Space Junk and What We're Watching Assemble

NASA’s Sun Spot blog posted that two satellites were about to nearly collide at 1:30 AM on February 28, 2024. Not a drill. Not a simulation. NASA’s TIMED satellite and Russia’s defunct Cosmos 2221 were on a collision course at 608 kilometers altitude, and nobody could do anything about it. Both were dead sticks. No maneuvering capability. Everyone just …