Newsdeck: Indian missile test endangers International Space Station: NASA By Al Jazeera
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The head of NASA on Monday branded India's destruction of one of its satellites a"terrible thing" that had created 400 pieces of orbital debris and led to new dangers for astronauts aboard the International Space Station .Jim Bridenstine was addressing employees of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration five days after India shot down a low-orbiting satellite in a missile test to prove it was among the world’s advanced space powers.
But 24 of the pieces “are going above the apogee of the International Space Station,” said Bridenstine. That includes about 10,000 pieces of space debris, of which nearly 3,000 were created by a single event: a Chinese anti-satellite test in 2007 at 852km from the surface.
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