August 6 China Upper Stage Explodes and Leaves Dangerous Space Junk
by Brian Wang from NextBigFuture.com on (#6PZGT)
On Tuesday morning (Aug. 6), a Chinese Long March 6A rocket launched the first 18 satellites for the Qianfan (Thousand Sails") broadband network, which will eventually host up to 14,000 spacecraft. The rocket successfully delivered the satellites to low Earth orbit (LEO), at an altitude of about 500 miles (800 kilometers) but then its upper ...