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Indian, Russian satellites barely miss collision in space
Last Updated : 28 Nov 2020 03:24:16 AM IST
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India's 700 kg cartography satellite Cartosat-2F and Russia's 450 kg Kanopus-V satellite had a near miss in the outer space on Friday morning, said Roscosmos, Russia's state space corporation.

Both the satellites were as close as 224 metres.
 
Roscosmos said in a statement that as per the TsNIIMash main information and analytical centre of the Warning Automated System of Hazardous Situations near the earth space-part of Roscosmos, at 1.49 UTC (IST 7.19 a.m.), Cartosat-2F, an active Indian satellite, dangerously approached Russia's Kanopus-V satellite.
 
According to the TsNIIMash calculations, the minimum distance between the Russian and the foreign satellite was 224 metres.
 
Both the spacecraft are designed for Earth's remote sensing.
 
Kanopus is an Earth observation sattelite with a launch mass of 450 kg mini-satellite mission of the Russian Space Agency.
 
The overall objective is to monitor Earth's surface, atmosphere, ionosphere, and magnetosphere to detect and study the probability of strong earthquake occurrence.
 
On the other hand, Cartosat-2F is the eighth in the Cartosat-2 series launched in January 2018.
 
While Roscosmos made the matter public, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has maintained silence on the issue so far.
 
However, it is not known how the Indian satellite came so close to the Russian satellite.
 



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