Thirty-five years ago today – February 11, 1974 – the first Titan/Centaur vehicle was launched. Titan-Centaur Proof Flight [Titan IIIE-Centaur D] or TC-1 “lifted off from Complex 41 at Cape Kennedy Air Force Station at 9:48 AM EDT,” according to this NASA page.
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Yesterday an Iridium commercial communications satellite collided with COSMOS-2251, a Russian communications relay satellite that was believed to be inoperative. The story is at this Spacefight Now page, and my Space Warfare Forum post on the subject is here.
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That’s terrific, Dave, thanks for sending the link. I wonder how the modeling will improve once they have a better idea of how big the pieces are, etc. Thanks again!
The website is http://www.agi.com.
There is a great downloadable (is that a word?) video on the AGI website that shows the debris fields created by the collision between the Iridium and Cosmos satellites. It’s large, go download it, unzip it, and then you can watch it.