A 45-year-old Soviet weather satellite has fragmented in orbit

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LeoLabs says its radar network detected multiple objects near Meteor 2-7 on Oct. 5 after an automated alert from its Western Australia site.Follow-up observations across the company’s global radar network confirmed a new debris-generating event, with LeoLabs estimating that tens of fragments were produced.Meteor 2-7 launched in 1981 and remains in an orbit hundreds of kilometers above Earth.

@LeoLabs_Space says the breakup is the latest in a series of fragmentation events its network has detected over the past six months.Every such event adds more uncontrolled objects to already crowded orbital regions, increasing the tracking and collision-avoidance burden for active satellites.

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• @outerspacetoday reports LeoLabs radar detection of a fragmentation event on October 5 involving Meteor 2-7, a Soviet weather satellite launched in 1981, producing an estimated tens of new debris pieces in low Earth orbit.
• Follow-up radar passes confirmed multiple fragments near the main body, marking the latest in a series of similar events tracked by LeoLabs over the past six months.
• The breakup increases orbital congestion and collision avoidance demands for active satellites, highlighting risks from aging, uncontrolled spacecraft still in stable orbits hundreds of kilometers above Earth. Grok

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