Comment by Rebelgecko
25 days ago
Their test was in a low-ish orbit so most of the debris is gone now.
I haven't looked at stats lately but I'd guess the #1 source of debris in space right now is still the Chinese ASAT test which threw a bunch of crap into Medium Earth Orbit. Before that, the main source of debris was leaking coolant from some nuclear reactors the Soviet sent up
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