Three Chinese taikonauts — Wang Jie, Chen Zhongrui and Chen Dong — will be extending their stay aboard China’s Tiangong space station after their return capsule was struck by a presumed piece of orbital debris on Wednesday.
Three Chinese taikonauts — Wang Jie, Chen Zhongrui and Chen Dong — will be extending their stay aboard China’s Tiangong space station after their return capsule was struck by a presumed piece of orbital debris on Wednesday.
China creates more orbital debris than every other country combined, so they had this coming. If we’re going to experience Kessler syndrome, it’ll be because of them.
Good. Starlink, spy satellites, golden domes and dreams of rods from gods or nukes in space. Humanity can be grounded for a few decades.