Cerise (satellite)
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Cerise was a French military reconnaissance satellite. It was hit by a catalogued space junk object from an Ariane rocket in 1996, making it the first verified case of a collision between two objects in space.<ref>CO2 prolongs life of space junk. BBC News. Retrieved on 2006-03-08.</ref>
The collision tore off a 4.2-metre (13-foot) portion of Cerise's gravity gradient stabilisation boom, which left the satellite severely damaged.
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