Russia hits satellite with missile creating large debris field

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"U.S. State Department Spokesman Ned Price said the test had created more than 1,500 pieces of trackable debris, and hundreds of thousands of pieces of un-trackable debris."

Next up: With FAA approval, SpaceX launches tens of thousands of satellites into near-earth orbit and pollutes the night sky with their technological debris. No comment from the State Department.

Russia just sends a message that when China starts advancing onto Taiwan and Russia simultaneously advances into Ukraine, the west should not get any funny ideas to defend anything.

Shooting down satellites might be the same kind of threat that dropping nuclear bomb was during cold war. Technically they could do it, but potential consequences to everyone on planet are so devastating, no one would make such move. It would basically stop any advancement is space for years

It doesn’t mean Russians will shoot anything, same as China openly testing weapons on 1:1 replicas of US carriers[1]: the point is to deter involvement of the West into Russia’s/China’s internal matters (taking over Taiwan/Ukraine) by showing seriousness of consequences.

[1] - https://news.usni.org/2021/11/07/china-builds-missile-target...

Plus the US has the same capabilities. It's the digital age equivalent of mutually assured destruction.

Can someone explain how this is not at the top of the front page?

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