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FRAGMENTATION · 2024-08-06
On 6 Aug 2024 the CZ-6A upper stage that lofted the first Qianfan (Thousand Sails) broadband satellites fragmented at ~800 km, producing one of the largest debris clouds in years. The fragments spread across low Earth orbit at an altitude where they will persist for decades.
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