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The amazing exploding (?) Russian spy satellites

Submit on Wednesday, July 16th, 2008 06:00

Only shortly after Russia denied last April that its Kosmos 2421 military satellite had disintegrated, the U.S. Space Surveillance Network (SSN) detected two fragmentation events that created a total of about 200 large, new parts of debris.

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