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If There Were a War in Space, Debris Would Destroy all Remaining Satellites in About 40 Years


On one particular day in 2021, astronauts and cosmonauts aboard the ISS must have felt a pin-prick of fear and uncertainty. On November 15th of that year, Russia fired an anti-satellite missile at one of its own defunct military satellites, Tselina-D.

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