Space Junk

and the Tragedy We're Watching in Real Time

In February 2024, two satellites that nobody owns and nobody can move nearly played cosmic billiards at 17,500 miles per hour. All humanity could do was watch and calculate probability distributions.

The details: NASA’s TIMED satellite, old enough to vote in most countries, nearly met its end alongside Russia’s defunct Cosmos 2221 spy satellite at 608 ki…