Old Russian rocket motor breaks up in orbit, generating new cloud of space debris

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Old Russian rocket motor breaks up in orbit, generating new cloud of space debris
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Sixteen pieces of space debris associated with the event are currently being tracked.

Object #32398 was an ullage motor from a space tug that helped deliver three Russian GLONASS satellites to orbit in 2007,Those GLONASS spacecraft lifted off atop a Russian Proton rocket, the upper stage of which had two small ullage motors, according to astrophysicist and satellite tracker Jonathan McDowell, who's based at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

"The SOZ motors don't use up all their propellant when they fire. And they have an unfortunate tendency to go bang years or decades later, leaving a bunch of debris in highly elliptical orbit.

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