FACTCHECK: Did Indian Satellite Collide With International Space Station and caused death of Astronaut Michael Collins

A video is getting massively viral on social media platforms. Sharing the video users are claiming that an Indian satellite under maintenance collided with the International space station. Moreover, this collision caused a lot of damage and the death of an astronaut Michael Collins.

https://twitter.com/gulzarosc/status/1483747948722896899

An Indian satellite collided with the International Space Station during its maintenance, which led to great material losses and the death of American astronaut Michael Collins. pic.twitter.com/PHUHPqGYz0

— الاستشاره القانونية (@mahmmoud26458) January 19, 2022

Sharing this video users wrote, “An Indian satellite collided with the International Space Station during its maintenance, which led to great material losses and the death of American astronaut Michael Collins”. Similarly, many other social media users also have shared this video.

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FactCheck

On our Fact check analysis, our team found that this video is an animated video. Further, we found a video on the Instagram page of CGI artist Aleksey Patrev from Ukraine.

Aleksey had uploaded the same video on his YouTube channel and Twitter handle.

https://twitter.com/AlekseyN11/status/1420379361270800386?t=UocTxNPG15Pdr-mC3exRRQ&s=08

Then, we got to know that the viral video is a clip taken from this video. Above all, no astronaut died in this incident. Astronaut Michael Collins, died from cancer, on April 28, 2021,

Hence, this viral video is fake and misleading. DFRAC requests our readers not to believe in any such viral videos without knowing their reality.