Space debris
Publicly cataloged rocket bodies, inactive payloads, and fragments — tracked debris, not all debris.
Notable debris events
ASAT test2007
Fengyun-1C
China destroyed its own defunct Fengyun-1C weather satellite in an anti-satellite test, creating one of the largest tracked debris clouds in low orbit.
0 fragments tracked here
Collision2009
Cosmos 2251 × Iridium 33
A defunct Russian Cosmos 2251 satellite collided with an active Iridium 33 communications satellite — the first major accidental collision between two intact satellites.
0 fragments tracked here
ASAT test2021
Cosmos 1408
Russia destroyed the defunct Cosmos 1408 satellite in an anti-satellite test, scattering fragments through orbits used by crewed spacecraft.
0 fragments tracked here
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