Russia rejects accusations of endangering ISS astronauts

Russia is the kid in school who couldn’t make the team so in bitterness crapped in the locker room shower.

not a nice thing to say but it’s true.

Russia rejects accusations of endangering ISS astronauts

Of course it did. It is not going to simply say yeah, we know and we did it anyway.

Anti-satellite missile tests by the U.S. in 2008 and India in 2019 were conducted at much lower altitudes

Oh, so the Americans are just pissed that the Russians can get their missiles higher.

Oh, so the Americans are just pissed that the Russians can get their missiles higher.

No, we are "just pissed" that the Russians so casually put lives and hundreds of billions of dollars of scientific investment in danger just to prove to the West that Vladimir also has a penis of moderate size.

So Russia created 1,500 pieces of space junk travelling at 17,500 mph (28,000 kph) for no good reason. They have tested anti-satellite weapons in the past so no new information will be gained. At best that test was ill-advised and worse it was just plain stupid.

How idiotic.

Russia blew up a satellite with their new anti-satellite system, and now the space station has to be evacuated for a debris threat. The satellite they blew up was launched in the early 80's and weighed 2,000 pounds, and shares a very close orbit with the ISS. Maybe Russia wants to nullify space to prevent "skynet". Why else would they blow up a large satellite orbiting slightly higher than the space station? That's perfectly positioned to take damn near everything out in a chain reaction, including Starlink.

So Russia created 1,500 pieces of space junk travelling at 17,500 mph (28,000 kph) for no good reason.

Ever heard about the operation Burnt Frost?

The ISS has already had issues from cabin deflation to unworking toilet, and under daily threat of debris since China blasted a satellite in 2007 and Russia making it double now, it's such a hazardous environment

Creating even more space junk only leads to bad consequences

There's no good reason to create more space junk

That's like saying more garbage is good for Earth

Don't crap where ya eat