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To: marcher who wrote (196120)	2/11/2023 12:02:21 AM
From: marcher	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217830

more funny biz in space: "... A Russian KOSMOS 2499 satellite broke up last month—for a second time—according to the Space Force's 18th Space Defense Squadron....are currently tracking 85 individual pieces of debris at an altitude of 1,169 km (726 miles). The breakup occurred on January 4, 2023, but the reason for the disintegration remains unknown. But this is actually the second breakup event of Kosmos 2499. The first fragmentation occurred on October 23, 2021, according to Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics who also tracks space debris. That event created 22 pieces of trackable debris. ...the satellite was designed to test experimental plasma propulsion engines/ion thrusters. Both the first and now second breakup event was thought to be caused by an explosion of that propulsion system... another identical spacecraft, Kosmos 2491, exploded in 2020, and that event has been attributed to an explosion of the propulsion system. This event follows a recent close call where two pieces of leftover Soviet-era space junk passed within feet of each other on January 27, 2023. A piece of a rocket stage came as close as 19.7 feet (six meters) from a defunct satellite at an altitude of 611 miles (984 km) above Earth's surface. If the two had collided, they would have created a debris cloud filled with thousands of tiny pieces of dangerous spacejunk..." phys.org