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20-Year-Old Military Weather Satellite Explodes In Orbit
schwit1 writes A 20-year-old U.S. military weather satellite apparently exploded for no obvious reason. The incident has put several dozen pieces of space junk into orbit. From the article: "A 20-year-old military weather satellite apparently exploded in orbit Feb. 3 following what the U.S. Air Force described as a sudden temperature spike. The “catastrophic event” produced 43 pieces of space debris, according to Air Force Space Command, which disclosed the loss of the satellite Feb. 27 in response to questions from SpaceNews. The satellite, Defense Meteorological Satellite Program Flight 13, was the oldest continuously operational satellite in the DMSP weather constellation."
On the one hand, this almost seems insightful. On the other hand, you wouldn't be the first poster here on Russian payroll.
Supporter of the +1 Over Dramatic mod option. In memory of apk.
Even being on the Russian payroll would not mean that everything he writes is automatically wrong, you know. And he does have a couple of points worth noting. So make of this what you want - but decide based on what he writes, not what he could be.
Hmmm...so those 50,000 people marching through Moscow's government district in memory of the pol, and braving Putin's secret police and other semi-evolved Simians, are doing what, exactly? Going to a picnic?