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Exploding Russian Satellite really a Rocket Booster

I'm sure plenty of people saw this article on Fark.com about an Exploding Russian Satellite. As it turns out, it wasn't a Russian satellite, but a rocket booster filled with corrosive hypergolic fuels. The rocket booster, called a Breeze-M, is left from a 2006 satellite launch. Evidently this sort of explosion is not uncommon. The explosion filled space with over 1000 pieces of debris. Combine that debris with the Chinese weather satellite and...All I can say is, start stockpiling your HDTV signal now.

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