Chinese 'space cleaner' spotted grabbing and throwing away old satellite

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[–]Zapped 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

More than 30,000 artificial objects are orbiting our planet, of which only about 5,000 are functioning, according to the ESA's Space Debris Office.

I wonder how much satellite-to-satellite warfare is going on?

[–]BravoVictor 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

We have always been at war with the Ort cloud.