un fucking believable.
India intentionally destroyed one of its satellites with a missile last week, a move Prime Minister Narendra Modi welcomed as one that established India "as a space power."
sure does, but it also makes you a bunch of arrogant narcissistic assholes. conveniently, more proof of such is provided further down the article.
But NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine told employees on Monday that it posed an "unacceptable" threat to astronauts on board the ISS.
He said the satellite shattered into pieces, many of them large enough to pose a danger to the space station but not large enough to track. It is unclear how many pieces of debris were created.
"What we are tracking right now, objects big enough to track - we're talking about 10 cm (4 inches) or bigger -about 60 pieces have been tracked," he said.
one would not be making a big leap to interpret this as "there are thousands of pieces of debris that we can't track up to about 4 inches in size"
a BB sized piece of space debris is a big deal. if it hits something, it'll cause damage. like a
PAINT FLAKE
G. Satheesh Reddy said:
"That's why we did it at lower altitude - it will vanish in no time," he told Reuters. "The debris is moving right now. How much debris, we are trying to work out, but our calculations are it should be dying down within 45 days."
SHOULD. that's the best you've got for endangering the sake of 6 human beings on the space station for the sake of your sabre rattling display? big whoop, you hit a satellite. welcome to introductory physics.
