MSNBC Battlefield Space To the Moon and Beyond June 4, 2024 05:20:00
Conducted a similar test in 1985, it was at a low altitude. >> here's 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 because now -- forgive the reference, it's like being in the pool. we all went swimming in the same poll....
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