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Jun 30, 2026
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A new CRASH Clock measures the chance of satellite collisions, and it’s ticking down fast
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There are more than one million pieces of lethal debris that are too small to be tracked and that satellites risk colliding with in low-Earth orbit. (Getty/Unsplash+)
A new CRASH Clock measures the chance of satellite collisions, and it’s ticking down fast
Published: June 30, 2026 1.49pm EDT
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Imagine a piece of space debris the size of a hockey puck slams into a Starlink satellite at about 10 kilometres per second. The kinetic energy is equivalent to two kilograms of TNT, or a fully-loaded semi-truck travelling at 100 kilometres an hour.
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