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==The Kessler Syndrome==
On December 13th,
The destruction of the station generated a significant amount of space debris: pieces of the station and the satellite of various sizes. The cloud of debris quickly began colliding with, and damaging or destroying, other objects in low Urth orbit, which in turn created more debris. This cascade effect, known as Kessler syndrome or the Kessler effect, effectively made lower Urth orbit unreachable because the behavior of the particles of debris could not be safely predicted with accuracy.
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