Satellite Collision News, American and Russian satellites narrowly escaped collision in space, the distance was only 10 meters – what happened when nasa timed mission and Russian satellite cosmos 2221 escaped collision in space – 2024-04-25 06:41:04

2024-04-25 06:41:04
Washington: NASA scientists have made new revelations about the possible collision between NASA’s TIMED satellite and the Russian satellite Cosmos 2221 in February. He said that both these satellites were very close to colliding with each other. On February 28, the two satellites passed by each other at a distance of only 33 feet and barely avoided collision. NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy said, “We found through recent analysis that both satellites were within hard-body parameters by less than 10 meters (33 feet).” He said at the 39th Space Symposium in Colorado: “It was very shocking personally, and also to all of us at NASA.”

pile of debris in space

Melroy said, “If the two satellites had collided, we would have seen significant debris production – small fragments traveling at thousands of miles per hour, could have punched holes in the other spacecraft. These could have potentially endangered human life. Were.” A large number of debris is being created in space due to human activities like dead satellites, rocket stages etc. All of them travel at very high speed in space. An estimate by the European Space Agency (ESA) suggests that there are 130 million pieces of such debris, ranging between 1 mm and 1 cm in length. In addition, more than 1 million fragments are between 1 and 10 cm and more than 35,000 fragments are larger than 10 cm.

How many satellites are currently orbiting?

The number of man-made space objects has increased in recent decades and there are currently 11,500 satellites orbiting our planet. NASA has stepped up efforts to ensure that space debris does not cause harm and becomes beneficial to humanity. “NASA is making sure we are making our resources available to support sustainable activity for us and everyone,” Melroy said in a statement.

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The Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) is planning to staff unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) integrated with AI technology to overcome the superior electronic warfare (EW) systems that Russia deploys in combat. school.

In a war increasingly tilted toward technical-tactical competition, both Russia and Ukraine are introducing systems that can supposedly neutralize each other’s advantages: AI drones and electronic warfare ( EW) new.

The Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) is planning to staff unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with integrated AI technology to overcome the superior EW systems that Russia deploys on the battlefield. Previously, Moscow announced the successful development of a new UAV, capable of resisting all existing jamming methods.

Drones, or UAVs, have become a feature of the 26-month war in Europe – where cheap, mass-produced commercial remotely controlled aircraft have been used for military purposes, from simple aerial surveillance, reconnaissance, guidance of artillery fire to armed attack (explosives).

Russia’s electronic warfare systems caused many difficulties for Ukraine in the war. Photo: EAT

Passing fire wall”

For Kiev, drones have almost become an alternative to the artillery force, which is running out of ammunition when military factories are destroyed, as well as the limited number of artillery shells, the type of artillery used by the US. and allies can assist.

According to TASS, Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine, Ekaterina Chernogorenko, said the army plans to equip drones with AI to deal with “the Russian military’s widespread use of electronic warfare”.

“The biggest problem (for UAVs) is the last kilometer to reach the target, because Russian soldiers have more and more personal electronic warfare devices,” said the leader of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense.

Therefore, this country looks to AI technology to solve the problem of “navigating the drone to hit the target, even when its control channel is blocked”.

Accordingly, these UAVs operate automatically, with little or no human control. The vehicle moves along waypoints, self-identifying and attacking targets with input data such as location, terrain and pre-programmed targets. In addition, these UAVs are also capable of being equipped with an inertial navigation system (INS).

The Russian Lancet suicide drone model is equipped with dual cameras to identify targets. Photo: EAT

Ukrainian military experts expect that extremely complex algorithms can help drones operate autonomously in some specific situations, as well as AI technology that provides devices with decision-making capabilities.

War AI “lab”.

The absence of a radio control link between the ground operator and the aircraft or satellite navigation signal makes it impossible for drones to “jam” or “spoof” signals from EW systems.

Magazine Time recently said that Western technology companies are turning Ukraine into an “AI war laboratory”. Such efforts, led by Ukraine’s Minister of Digital Transformation, Mykhailo Fedorov, mobilized international capital and the public to purchase thousands of civilian drones for use on the battlefield.

Meanwhile, last October, the Russian Lancet suicide drone was said to have the ability to automatically identify Western artillery systems and carry out dive attacks.

To do this, Lancet uses image recognition technology with a warehouse of data that has been identified and classified in an internal data bank.

(Theo EAT)