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Well, while possibly rude it still happens sometimes: https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/263732-china-keeps-dropp...

Will likely no longer be an issue once the new chinese spaceport in the south fully comes online.



Interesting fact, Israel is one of the few countries on earth that regularly launches into retrogade LEO (first stage flight path over ocean), because of the extreme political considerations around lobbing something that looks like an ICBM over their eastern neighbours. And the problem with dropping spent first stages on everywhere east of them.


Oh great, so if ASAT activity blows any of their stuff up, it'll have even more velocity relative to the other denizens of similar orbital planes.




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