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Russian satellite breaks up, creating debris in low Earth orbit (spacenews.com)

submitted 3 months ago by llamacoffee@lemmy.world to c/spaceflight@sh.itjust.works

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[–] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

This sort of headline will only become more frequent

[–] burble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 months ago

Luckily this was already in a low orbit and these pieces will come down within a year or two. I do still want to see some debris bounties for deorbiting big dead stuff.

[–] remotelove@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 months ago

This has been a thing for a while. I am sure you have seen something like this already, and there are probably live trackers on the web somewhere: https://clasp.engin.umich.edu/2023/12/06/tracking-undetectable-space-junk/

For once, this isn't a single country issue.