verybody enjoys a good meteor shower. But did you know that something as tiny as a meteoroid can cause fatal damage if it slams into a spacecraft? That be what happened to the satellite Olympus-1 in 1993 during the Perseid meteor shower, when it spun out of control. Engineers managed to stabilise the craft, but the operation consumed so much propellant that they ultimately had to shepherd the satellite into the
Meteor monitoring
Feb 02, 2023
3 minutes
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