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India’s anti-satellite missile test may have created 6,500 pieces of space junk larger than a pencil eraser, according to a new simulation

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Analytical Graphics Inc. This week, India launched a missile to intentionally destroy one of its own satellites. "Mission Shakti," as the anti-satellite missile test is known, created a slew of debris about 175 miles above Earth. Analytical Graphics Inc., an engineering software company that models the space environment around Earth, created a simulation of the […]

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