Iridium 33: Perbedaan antara revisi

'''Iridium 33''' adalah [[satelit komunikasi]] [[Iridium Satellite LLC|Iridium]] [[Amerika Serikat]]. Satelit ini diluncurkan dari [[Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 81|Site 81/23]] di [[Kosmodrom Baikonur]] pada pukul 01:36 GMT tanggal 14 September 1997, oleh roket pengangkut [[Proton (roket)|Proton-K]].<ref name="Iridium">{{cite web|url=http://www.astronautix.com/project/iridium.htm|title=Iridium|last=Wade|first=Mark|publisher=Encyclopedia Astronautica|accessdate=2009-02-12}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/proton.htm|title=Proton|last=Wade|first=Mark|publisher=Encyclopedia Astronautica|accessdate=2009-02-12}}</ref> Pada tanggal 10 Februari 2009, pada pukul 16:55 GMT, satelit [[Kosmos-2251]] menabrak Iridium 33, menyebabkan kehancuran kedua satelit tersebut.<ref name="Space">{{cite web|url=http://www.space.com/news/090211-satellite-collision.html|title=U.S. Satellite Destroyed in Space Collision|last=Iannotta|first=Becky|date=2009-02-11|publisher=Space.com|accessdate=2009-02-11}}</ref> [[NASA]] melaporkan banyak [[sampah angkasa]] yang muncul akibat peristiwa tabrakan ini.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5grGfFhzFgjxK46MQHTwD1RgRUwCAD969LB802|title=2 orbiting satellites collide 500 miles up|date=2009-02-11|publisher=Associated Press|accessdate=2009-02-11|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20090216044137/http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5grGfFhzFgjxK46MQHTwD1RgRUwCAD969LB802|archivedate=2009-02-16}}</ref>