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FRAGMENTATION · 1966-05-15
The Agena upper stage from the 1966 Nimbus 2 launch fragmented in a ~1,000 km polar orbit, one of the oldest debris clouds still tracked. Its long-lived fragments share the same crowded sun-synchronous region used by today's Earth-observation fleet.
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