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A Chinese weather satellite was possibly destroyed or broken down last March. The cause? A collision with debris, the remains of a Russian Zenit-2 rocket introduced in 1996, according to the U. S. Space Force. U. S. , Whose 18th Space Control Squadron, which tracks orbital traffic, detected the incident. “Several days before March 18, 2021, the 18th SPCS identified an increasing likelihood that a fragment of debris, probably the size of a computer keyboard, would collide with an active Chinese satellite, the Yunhai 1-02,” he added. The Force spokesman told me in an email. “The probability of collision is...
