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Re:Senators introduce bill to thin out the 900k pieces of or... by speed_spread on Thursday September 15, 2022 @08:05PM (#32860189)
Pretty sure China would prefer to make rockets that don't explode at all. But if you insist, my friend Sergey knows a guy that might have an overstock of aging launchers...
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Re:Senators introduce bill to thin out the 900k pieces of or... by btilly on Thursday September 15, 2022 @11:03PM (#32861590)
The incident in question is generally believed to have been a weapons test. They deliberately hit a satellite with a rocket to see that they could.

It also created an insane amount of junk in a high orbit that won't deorbit any time soon.

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