A Chinese anti-satellite test destroys the Fengyun-1C weather satellite
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A kinetic interceptor destroyed a defunct Chinese weather satellite at an altitude of roughly 860 kilometres, creating the largest single debris-generating event in the history of spaceflight — several thousand catalogued fragments, plus a far larger untracked population. The altitude is what made it consequential: atmospheric drag at that height removes objects over centuries rather than years, so the fragments will remain a hazard to sun-synchronous Earth observation orbits for generations.
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