The US Military and Iridium Satellite LLC both confirmed that according to US East Coast time at 11:55 a.m. on 10th a commercial Iridium communications satellite collided with a defunct Russian military communication satellite over northern Siberia. It is the first-ever crash for two big communications satellites in the history of human space.

Of these two satellites one is the US commercial satellite launched in 1997 the other is the Russian satellite put into orbit in 1993 the latter one has already abandoned.The spokesman of the NASA said the crash has left a large number of debris drifting in space which might pose a slight risk to the International Space Station.

美國(guó)軍方和美國(guó)LLC銥星公司12日均確認(rèn)，美國(guó)東部時(shí)間10日上午11時(shí)55分，美國(guó)銥衛(wèi)星LLC公司的一顆商用通信衛(wèi)星與一顆已經(jīng)報(bào)廢的俄羅斯軍用通信衛(wèi)星10日在西伯利亞北部上空相撞，這是人類太空史上首次發(fā)生兩顆大型衛(wèi)星相撞事件。

The U.S. military and the U.S. LLC Iridium satellite company confirmed on the 12th that at 11:55 a.m. EDT on the 10th, a commercial communication satellite of the U.S. Iridium satellite company collided with a scrapped Russian military communication satellite over northern Siberia on the 10th, which was the first time that two large satellites collided in the history of human space.

兩顆衛(wèi)星中，一顆是美國(guó)1997年發(fā)射的商用衛(wèi)星，另一顆是俄羅斯1993年發(fā)射的衛(wèi)星，后一顆衛(wèi)星已經(jīng)報(bào)廢。美宇航局發(fā)言人說，兩顆衛(wèi)星相撞產(chǎn)生的大量碎片散落到太空中，這對(duì)國(guó)際空間站可能會(huì)產(chǎn)生輕微影響。

One of the two satellites is a commercial satellite launched by the United States in 1997, the other is a Russian satellite launched in 1993, and the latter one has been scrapped. A spokesman for NASA said that a large amount of debris from the collision between the two satellites had scattered into space, which may have a slight impact on the international space station.