Two or more satellites slamming into each other could create many more out-of-control bits that would pose even more hazards to the growing collection of satellites in space.

两颗或两颗以上的卫星相撞可能会造成更多的失控碎片，从而对太空中日益增多的卫星构成更大的威胁。

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Because many of those large satellites have ceased to function, the proposal recently been made to eliminate interference from nonfunctioning satellites by exploding them in space.

由于许多大型卫星已经停止运行，最近有人提议在太空中引爆这些卫星，以消除失灵卫星的干扰。

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As an organization of volunteers, AMSAT was putting "amateur" satellites in orbit decades before the current CubeSat craze.

作为一个志愿者组织，国际业余卫星组织在当前立方体卫星热潮之前的几十年前就在将“业余”卫星送入轨道。

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The collision of the Russian and American satellites was the first of its kind in over fifty years of space travel.

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Google has invested in a new company that wants to put up a system of satellites over Africa.

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Today,VOA broadcasts to satellites in space that send the signal back to stations on the ground that transmit programs with a clear signal.

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This is already having consequences in space, creating glitches in satellites that rely on the field to protect them from solar and other space radiation.

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Two other firms the Sierra Nevada Corporation, a conglomerate that dabbles in satellites, energy and medicine, and Boeing, an aerospace giant hope to fly similar missions with their own spacecraft.

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And two launches, in 1997 and 2001, put satellites in their wrong orbits.

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