The government says that a South Korean satellite could collide with space debris on Sunday evening.
 
The Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning said that there is a possibility of collision at 9:30 p.m. on Sunday between South Korea’s Science and Technology Satellite 3 and a piece of debris.
 
The debris is one of thousands produced by the 2009 collision between an inactive Russian communications satellite and an active U.S. commercial communications satellite.
 
The ministry said that the South Korean satellite could come as close as 23 meters to the debris above the Greenland Sea at around 9:30 p.m.
 
The ministry plans to minimize the risk of collision by adjusting satellite attitude during the time frame in which a possible collision could occur.
 
The South Korean satellite, launched in 2013, avoided a collision with the debris of a Soviet-era satellite in September last year.