Orbit Debris News Today

Conducted a similar test in 1985, it was at a low altitude. >> heres the difference, the china satellite that they took out was high enough in orbit so that all those pieces are still there. creating a debris catastrophe. if you take out a satellite and lower orbit, the air molecules there, they will slow it down, they will take it out of orbit in due time. so that the lowest orbit debris has a self cleaning mechanism. high up, it does not. so it was in that sense irresponsible to do this becaus...