Indian satellite destruction created 400 pieces of debris, endangering ISS: NASA.
The head of NASA on Monday branded India's destruction of one of its satellites a"terrible thing" that had created 400 pieces of orbital debris and led to new dangers for astronauts aboard the International Space Station.
Not all of the pieces were big enough to track, Bridenstine explained."What we are tracking right now, objects big enough to track -- we're talking about 10 centimeters or bigger -- about 60 pieces have been tracked." But 24 of the pieces"are going above the apogee of the International Space Station," said Bridenstine.
That includes about 10,000 pieces of space debris, of which nearly 3,000 were created by a single event: a Chinese anti-satellite test in 2007 at 530 miles from the surface.
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