Is it just dumb luck that our probes (e.g. Juno, Voyager I, Voyager 2) never collide with even the smallest rocks in space? Is space in our solar system so void that the odds of a collision are so low? Does NASA (and other global space programs) have details about natural debris throughout our solar system that they can avoid collisions through navigation?
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many of the large asteroids that pose a risk to earth are cataloged and you can check them out as well as all things space weather [here.](https://spaceweather.com/) But, most of it really occurs because the asteroids are following large gravitational pulls and usually circle around a large body of mass before they either crash into it or burn up in the atmosphere of the celestial body there are orbiting on their entry. so most of it is dumb luck that they don’t intersect any asteroids path, but also because the probes and satellites don’t have enough mass to change the gravitational orbit of the asteroids and cause them to hit the satellites.
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