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another example of the urgent need to clean up space debris, which is found here: The one and only satellite of the equator was seriously damaged after hitting the remains of a Russian rocket S14 launched in 1985.

L EXA (the Ecuadorian civilian space agency) has announced that its satellite Pegaso had stopped working for a week after he met on his journey to space debris, but he would remain in orbit.

The incident occurred at about 1500 km east of Madagascar, the satellite only 1.2 kg would hit an old Soviet tank rocket S14.

event is painful to the equator, mainly because it has only one satellite in orbit, and that it is positioned relatively recent since April 25.

The country now finds herself with a $ 80,000 satellite unusable, which although funded by the private sector, will need more than $ 700,000 of public funds for the various tests launches, certification and logistics.

equator expected to launch its next Pegaso same satellite in July from Russia.