This file photo shows a rocket taking off with a satellite from a launchpad in Jiuquan, on September 29, 2012. An Ecuadoran satellite launched from the same cosmodrome has collided in orbit with the ... more 

This file photo shows a rocket taking off with a satellite from a launchpad in Jiuquan, on September 29, 2012. An Ecuadoran satellite launched from the same cosmodrome has collided in orbit with the remains of a Russian rocket, but it is too soon to know how much damage it might have sustained, according to Quito's space agency less