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A comment on Kessler Syndrome.

Re:Kessler Syndrome by wycy on Friday November 02, 2018 @07:12AM (#18362138)
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_mi...

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Re:Kessler Syndrome by alex_duf on Friday November 02, 2018 @08:15AM (#18362421)
And irresponsible of the USA to send needles to space

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_West_Ford

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Re:Kessler Syndrome by delecti on Friday November 02, 2018 @08:57AM (#18362631)
A 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.
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Re:Kessler Syndrome by wcoenen on Friday November 02, 2018 @09:00AM (#18362645)
The USA did the same in 1985 [1] and 2008 [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solwind

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Burnt_Frost

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Re:Kessler Syndrome by Armisael16 on Friday November 02, 2018 @09:35AM (#18362864)
The second satellite was about to reenter and so didn’t produce orbital debris.
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