BBCNEWS Click June 4, 2024 02:45:00
Still keeps orbiting, which is a problem for the useful ones. satellites, when they die on these orbital highways, theyjust keep on going at these very fast speeds. some of the relative speeds between satellites that are crisscrossing each other is like 15 times the speed of a bullet. so thats pretty gnarly to think about. and, yeah, every once in a while, two of these things find each other in space at these very high speeds, collide and break up into very smaller pieces and that sort of stuff....
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