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Originally Posted by Digital_Trucker
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Originally Posted by Torplexed
In terms of producing debris, this impact was about as bad as you can get. The energy involved was amazing. It might take weeks or even months to catalog all of the pieces. I don't see any rational reason for a nation as large as Russia to screw up their own badly needed communication satellites with junk in space.
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Evidently, it doesn't bother the Chinese to do the same thing (on a smaller scale) http://www.space.com/news/070202_china_spacedebris.html |
Good point. Debris from the Chinese ASAT test jeopardizes the three dozen or more operational satellites China has in orbit, and will endanger the crews of future Shenzhou spaceflights as well. The ironic part is that China has since accepted U.S. tracking data on potential debris threats to the Shenzhou missions.
They mess up space and then we help them navigate the mess. Go figure.
