A defunct Soviet satellite and Chinese rocket booster nearly collided in space - SlashGear

A company called LeoLabs, a private space-tracking company, uses ground-based radar to track space objects and had predicted the chance for a collision at 10 percent or higher.

A scientist from the University of Texas at Austin, Moriba Jah, has been trying to raise public awareness about the sheer abundance of space junk orbiting the planet.

The LeoLabs CEO said his company wanted to raise public awareness about the event because the two objects were large and were in a relatively clean orbit compared to those nearby.