According to astrophysist and space historian Jonathan McDowell, Resurs-P1 passed over Plesetsk, a test launch base for the Russian Nudol anti-satellite system around the time of its debirs-generating event.
is the whole tweet.
If Putin were doing something stupid because he can, that would sound pretty in keeping to me.
It would not be silly to say it.
Why do you imply Roscosmos is an autonomous organisation not under direct control of the President? Who do you say is in charge of decisions to take military actions (fire weapons) into international regions (space) from Russia?
Or another angle -- what percentage of satellite EOL events is "breaking up into a debris field" (vs "burning up in the atmosphere")?
> Space debris (also known as space junk, space pollution, space waste, space trash, space garbage, or cosmic debris) are defunct human-made objects in space – principally in Earth orbit – which no longer serve a useful function. These include derelict spacecraft (nonfunctional spacecraft and abandoned launch vehicle stages), mission-related debris, and particularly-numerous in-Earth orbit, fragmentation debris from the breakup of derelict rocket bodies and spacecraft.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_debris
> There were 190 known satellite breakups between 1961 and 2006. By 2015, the total had grown to 250 on-orbit fragmentation events.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_space_debris_producing...