space-war.gmi (585B)
1 2 # Are we already at war in Space? 3 4 A satellite was just hit by space debris, marking the "first major confirmed orbital collision in a decade." notes Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at the Center for Astrophysics at Harvard. 5 6 > "Space-Track catalog updated today with a note for object 48078, 1996-051Q: 'Collided with satellite'. This is a new kind of comment entry - haven't seen such a comment for any other satellites before". 7 8 This is not any satellite, but a military 9 10 => https://twitter.com/planet4589/status/1426771798276943872 Jonathan's Twitter thread on the collision 11