spaceflight, #Scientists and #engineers estimate that there are hundreds of thousands :1000: of pieces of #orbital #debris about the size of a blueberry that cannot be tracked. Given their velocities of many times the speed of sound, these small objects have the kinetic #energy of a falling #anvil. Then there are tens of thousands :1000: of pieces of trackable debris the size of a softball or larger that have the kinetic energy of a large #bomb 💣💥 https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/12/space-debris-expert-orbits-will-be-lost-and-people-will-die-later-this-decade
One of those might have hit #Soyuz
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