Chinese blew up on of their satellites while it was in Earth orbit, now the Earth is covered in Chinese space debris. It will be a danger for all communications satellites, as well as any future space exploration. This is the same as mining farmland. Read the Google Earth blog, and watch the overwhelming amount of debris in Earth Orbit.
"Using the orbit tracker, and the data available on all objects tracked in space at Celestrack, he was able to create this visualization [Google Earth File. You must have GE installed.] showing the positions of all the tracked objects from the destroyed C
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