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Well, while possibly rude it still happens sometimes: https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/263732-china-keeps-dropping-expended-rocket-boosters-near-villages htt
by m4rtink 8y ago
Well, while possibly rude it still happens sometimes:
https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/263732-china-keeps-dropping-expended-rocket-boosters-near-villages https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/263732-china-keeps-dropp...
Will likely no longer be an issue once the new chinese spaceport in the south fully comes online.
- walrus01 8y agoInteresting fact, Israel is one of the few countries on earth that regularly launches into retrogade LEO (first stage flight path over ocean), because of the extreme political considerations around lobbing something that looks like an ICBM over their eastern neighbours. And the problem with dropping spent first stages on everywhere east of them.
- myself248 8y agoOh great, so if ASAT activity blows any of their stuff up, it'll have even more velocity relative to the other denizens of similar orbital planes.