https://spacewatch.global/tag/weston-c-weber/ AN INDEPENDENT PERSPECTIVE ON SPACE Thu, 10 Feb 2022 09:00:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://spacewatch.global/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/SpaceWatchGlobal-Sign-90x90.png https://spacewatch.global/tag/weston-c-weber/ 32 32 https://spacewatch.global/2022/02/spacewatchgl-opinion-space-sustainability-is-not-passive/ Thu, 10 Feb 2022 09:00:20 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=39086 On November 14th of last year, Russia deliberately destroyed one of its satellites as a test of a new anti-satellite weapon (ASAT). According to a US State Department press briefing, “this test has so far generated over fifteen hundred pieces of trackable orbital debris and will likely generate hundreds of thousands of pieces of smaller orbital debris.”]]>