A Russian satellite was hit by debris from China's 2007 anti-satellite test on Jan. 22. The space junk crash changed the Russian spacecraft's orbit.

And Copernicus Sentinel-1A isn't the first spacecraft to be hit by a piece of speeding space debris. This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed.

Wright documents three previous known cases of an active satellite being struck by space junk — once each in 1996, 2007 and 2009 (when a U.S. telecommunications craft was destroyed by a ...

Dish botches satellite deorbit, gets hit with FCC’s first space-debris fine Old TV satellite's graveyard orbit isn't high enough, poses orbital debris risk.

While the odds of space debris hitting you are very, very minuscule, a large satellite is poised to smash into Earth's atmosphere Wednesday morning beginning around 11 a.m. EST. Here's what we ...

A British satellite in orbit around Earth has successfully tested out a particularly pointed method for cleaning up space debris: piercing objects with a harpoon. In a new video taken from the ...

A Russian satellite has broken up into at least 180 pieces of debris in space, forcing a NASA crew to temporarily shelter in place at the International Space Station, U.S. officials say.. The ...

The FCC fined the company $150,000 for failing to properly deorbit a satellite, aiming to control the mounting problem of space debris.

The ERS-2 satellite was launched into space in 1995 and finished its last mission in 2011. Since then, the device has remained in Earth's orbit as "space junk," one of tens of thousands of objects ...

On Jan. 22, 2013, debris from a Chinese anti-satellite program test hit a Russian satellite. [Read the full story.] Russia's small Ball Lens In The Space (BLITS) retroreflector satellite is a 17 ...