TechSlashdot1h ago

A Chinese Rocket Breaks Apart Dangerously Close To the Starlink

A Chinese Rocket Breaks Apart Dangerously Close To the Starlink Constellation

A Chinese Rocket Breaks Apart Dangerously Close To the Starlink

A Chinese Zhuque-2E rocket's upper stage broke apart shortly after last week's June 9 launch, likely creating 100 to 150 pieces of debris in a busy region of low-Earth orbit crossed by the ISS and lower-altitude Starlink satellites. Most fragments should reenter within months…

Read full article

Source: Slashdot · Opens in new tab