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China Says SpaceX Satellites Nearly Collided With Its Space Station (https://science.slashdot.org/story/21/12/28/0150255/china-says-spacex-satellites-nearly-collided-with-its-space-station)
The 2007 Chinese ASAT test was the second largest creation of space debris in history after Project West Ford, with more than 2,000 pieces of trackable size (golf ball size and larger) officially catalogued in the immediate aftermath, and an estimated 150,000 debris particles.[27][28] As of October 2016, a total of 3,438 pieces of debris had been detected, with 571 decayed and 2,867 still in orbit nine years after the incident.[29]More than half of the tracked debris orbits the Earth with a mean altitude above 850 kilometres (530 mi), so they would likely remain in orbit for decades or centuries.[30] Based on 2009 and 2013 calculations of solar flux, the NASA Orbital Debris Program Office estimated that around 30% of the larger-than-10-centimeter (3.9 in) debris would still be in orbit in 2035.[31]In April 2011, debris from the Chinese test passed 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) away from the International Space Station.[32]As of April 2019, 3000 of the 10,000 pieces of space debris routinely tracked by the US Military as a threat to the International Space Station were known to have originated from the 2007 satellite shoot down.[33]
Quote from: madires on December 28, 2021, 02:47:56 pmChina Says SpaceX Satellites Nearly Collided With Its Space Station (https://science.slashdot.org/story/21/12/28/0150255/china-says-spacex-satellites-nearly-collided-with-its-space-station)And frankly Chinese can go fuck themselves with those accusations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Chinese_anti-satellite_missile_testQuoteThe 2007 Chinese ASAT test was the second largest creation of space debris in history after Project West Ford, with more than 2,000 pieces of trackable size (golf ball size and larger) officially catalogued in the immediate aftermath, and an estimated 150,000 debris particles.[27][28] As of October 2016, a total of 3,438 pieces of debris had been detected, with 571 decayed and 2,867 still in orbit nine years after the incident.[29]More than half of the tracked debris orbits the Earth with a mean altitude above 850 kilometres (530 mi), so they would likely remain in orbit for decades or centuries.[30] Based on 2009 and 2013 calculations of solar flux, the NASA Orbital Debris Program Office estimated that around 30% of the larger-than-10-centimeter (3.9 in) debris would still be in orbit in 2035.[31]In April 2011, debris from the Chinese test passed 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) away from the International Space Station.[32]As of April 2019, 3000 of the 10,000 pieces of space debris routinely tracked by the US Military as a threat to the International Space Station were known to have originated from the 2007 satellite shoot down.[33]
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