[meteorite-list] U.S. To Shoot Down Defunct Spy Satellite

[Mark Ford]

Hmmm.

Looks like we are in for an even better firework display now then!

Surley fragmenting something this big, will mean it is actually more
likely for [something] to survive? -  since you will create random
pieces of debris with very differing velocities and therefore some might
have more chance of having suitable rentry parameters which will allow
them to survive...

Either way - Really, this is not very good news for the low earth space
environment! 

About time we had some proper global treaties in place to stop countries
randomly polluting space, all for the sake of some commercial secrets
(which are already probably common knowledge anyway).

Best,
Mark Ford


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