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In Chapter 1, we saw that even a small piece of debris, perhaps something as small as a baseball, traveling at over 8 km/sec can damage or destroy a satellite. It's bad enough that our willful neglect of the space environment over the last 50 years has placed our valuable space assets in harm's way; we now have to consider that someone might intentionally trash the space around the Earth in order to destroy our satellites there.
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Johnson, L. (2013). 2 Space War. In: Sky Alert!. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1830-6_4
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