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Blowing up 1 or more satellites will also increase the amount of orbital debris floating around.

There is already something near 1 million pieces of space junk being actively tracked to avoid possible collisions with existing space vehicles/satellites.

This space junk problem eventually reaches a point where no orbital vehicles will be able to reach, stay in, and/or pass into space.



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