NASA satellite, dead Russian spacecraft zoom past each other in orbit

In the early hours of February 28, a NASA satellite narrowly avoided a potential collision high above Earth.

Agency officials reported that at 1:34 a.m. EST (0634 GMT), the inactive Russian spy satellite Cosmos 2221 came uncomfortably close to a NASA spacecraft known as TIMED, which has been dedicated to studying Earth’s atmosphere since 2001.

“While the two non-maneuverable satellites will approach each other again, this was their closest pass in the current predicted orbit determinations, as they are gradually moving apart in altitude,” NASA officials wrote in an update today, Space.com reported.

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