Did you all read the news about the incident on Tuesday, 10 February 2009, in Siberia sky? The US and Russia are trading shots at each other right now!!! Man, it’s going to get bigger soon if they don’t stop it. It will turn into Star Wars and not World War Three!

But luckily they are not trading gun shots or missiles yet. They are only trading verbal shots right now. They are trading shots over who was to blame for the huge satellite collision 800 kilometers or 500 miles above Siberia on 10 February 2009.

According to NASA officials, the collision was the first high-speed impact between two intact spacecraft. The collision caused thousands of uncontrolled debris spewed into space, threatening other satellites or spacecrafts nearby.

It involved a functioning derelict (abandoned) Russian military satellite used for its military communications and a working satellite owned by Iridium, US, which served commercial customers as well as the U.S. Department of Defense. Oh man… someone must be dreaming during work and forgot to shift the satellite to avoid the collision. That person better shift job or do IT job search now if clicking the keyboard and looking into the screen is the only thing he or she knows to play with before you get booted!

OK, some might wonder how many satellites are out there above the earth. How many of them non-functional and derelict?

The picture above by European Space Agency shows trackable objects in orbit around Earth. Trackable? How about the non-trackable?