Incidents of Space Junk Collisions
A small Russian spacecraft in orbit appears to have been struck by Chinese space junk from a 2007 anti-satellite test, likely damaging the Russian craft, possibly severely. The space collision appears to have occurred on Jan. 22, when a chunk of China's Fengyun 1C satellite, which was intentionally destroyed by that country in a 2007 anti-satellite demonstration, struck the Russian spacecraft, according to an analysis by the Center for Space Standards & Innovation (CSSI) in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Ecuador's first and only satellite, the NEE-1, collided with a Russian rocket fragment in mid-May 2013. It wasn't immediately clear if the nano-satellite called the Pegasus was damaged. The Ecuadorean space agency director, Ronnie Nader, tweeted on Wednesday that the satellite remained in orbit: "Ecuador still has its satellite; the people still have Pegasus."
The 2009 satellite collision was the first accidental hypervelocity collision between two intact artificial satellites in low Earth orbit. It occurred on February 10, 2009, 16:56 UTC, when Iridium 33 and Kosmos-2251 collided at a speed of 42,120 km/h (26,170 mi/h) and an altitude of 789 kilometres (490 mi) above the Taymyr Peninsula in Siberia.