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A Defense Department Satellite Exploded, Scattering Junk In Orbit

By Mika McKinnon Published March 6, 2015, 1:41 am ET

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Defense Meteorological Satellite Program satellite number 13 (DMSP-13) exploded in orbit in February, spewing 43 more pieces of garbage into low Earth orbit. The more aggravating part? This isn’t the first satellite of the model to explode.

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