“Price noted that the anti-satellite test created more than 1,500 pieces of orbital debris large enough to track, in addition to “hundreds of thousands of pieces of smaller orbital debris.””
Russia blew up one of its own satellites with a missile. Two of its own cosmonauts were on the station that had to dodge the cloud. The crew sheltered in their capsules ready to flee. The debris will circle for years, and every operator in low orbit now pays for one country’s weapons demo.