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Re:A Guide to Magnetorquers for Satellites by erigeron on Friday August 23, 2019 @01:30PM (#20780098)
Check out the Kosmos-2251/Iridium-33 collision. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_satellite_collision
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Re:A Guide to Magnetorquers for Satellites by kartikkumar on Friday August 23, 2019 @01:40PM (#20780226)
TS Kelso at AGI put out an interesting white paper with more details: https://www.agi.com/resources/white-papers/analysis-of-the-i...

Kelso is also the brains behind CelesTrak for debris tracking: https://www.celestrak.com

There are also a number of videos on YouTube of the collision profile, made using AGI's Systems Toolkit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oRC9dHKI9Y

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Re:A Guide to Magnetorquers for Satellites by perl4ever on Friday August 23, 2019 @11:23PM (#20785017)
I'm unclear what "at a speed of" means. Is this relative velocity or just how fast they were both orbiting? Why phrase it this way, I wonder.
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