Thanks to latest
Economist for spotting
Junk science: Scientists are increasingly worried about the amount of debris orbiting the Earth. Last year an Iridium satellite was hit by a defunct Cosmos sat...
"... the two craft collided and the result was hundreds 
of pieces of shrapnel more than 10cm across, and thus large enough to track by radar -- and goodness knows how many that were not. This accident came two years after the deliberate destruction by the Chinese of their Fengyun-1C spacecraft in the test of an anti-satellite weapon. That created over 2,000 pieces of junk bigger than 10cm, and an estimated 35,000 pieces more than 1cm across. Together, these incidents increased the number of objects in orbit at an altitude of 700-1,000km by a third."
Congratulations to China for
deliberately being the biggest single polluter. Welcome to the space age, you idiots.
Qian Xuesen would not be proud.
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