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[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago (14 children)

Satellites don't just spontanously burst into 100 pieces.

Russia could really just please stop being a dick

[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 months ago (5 children)

There are enough mundane explanations for why a satellite can, in fact, burst into 100 pieces.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

would love to know. because they really don't tend to do that, unless they are in the process of crashing into the thicker athmosphere. And that was not the case, as it's sharing a close enough orbit to the iss

[–] Deme 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

They sure don't tend to do that, but there are still mundane explanations for this. An unintentional collision between the satellite and another object being one of them.

"I find it hard to believe they would use such a big satellite as an ASAT target," McDowell said.

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