"The size of the debris we are tracking ranges from small fragments roughly the size of a softball to larger pieces up to the size of a car door," ExoAnalytic CTO Bill Therien told SpaceNews. "The majority of the tracked objects are on the smaller end of that spectrum, which contributes to the difficulty of consistently observing all the debris pieces."
Space trackers are now trying to understand how the newly created pieces of space junk could affect the operations of other satellites in geostationary orbit."
It's nonetheless a precarious situation, with the potential for space debris triggering a potentially catastrophic cascading series of events, a phenomenon known as Kessler syndrome.
The satellite, which was providing broadband services including internet and phone communication services to parts of Europe, Africa, and most of Asia, suddenly disintegrated on October 19."
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