Satellite tracking company LeoLabs reported that two spacecraft in orbit at an altitude of approximately 608 kilometers separated from each other, avoiding collision. The distance between them was 20 meters.

Previously, the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration reported that a collision could occur between the American TIMED spacecraft and the Russian satellite Kosmos-2221, which could cause the formation of a significant amount of space debris.

According to the European Space Agency (ESA), there are currently approximately 11,500 satellites in Earth orbit, but only 9,000 of them remain operational. But this is just the tip of the orbital iceberg. There are approximately 36,500 pieces of space debris at least ten centimeters wide in orbit around our planet, as well as more than 130 million pieces of space debris more than a millimeter in diameter.