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EXPLOSION · 1965-12-21
A Titan IIIC Transtage upper stage from 1965 broke up in a high, near-geosynchronous transfer orbit — one of the oldest fragmentation events still represented in the catalog. Its fragments orbit so high that they will persist essentially indefinitely.
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