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Kessler syndrome is why it was so irresponsible of the Chinese to blow up a satellite just to prove that they could. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Chine
by wycy 8y ago
Kessler syndrome is why it was so irresponsible of the Chinese to blow up a satellite just to prove that they could.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Chinese_anti-satellite_missile_test https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Chinese_anti-satellite_mi...
- alex_duf 8y agoAnd irresponsible of the USA to send needles to space https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_West_Ford https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_West_Ford
- delecti 8y agoA valid example, but not quite a fair comparison. One of those happened in 2007 and the other happened more than 15 years before the idea of "Kessler syndrome" was even proposed.
- wcoenen 8y agoThe USA did the same in 1985 [1] and 2008 [2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solwind https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solwind [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Burnt_Frost https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Burnt_Frost
- Armisael16 8y agoThe second satellite was about to reenter and so didn’t produce orbital debris.