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Do they have pressurized gas/liquid onboard that could explode or is this most likely a collision?
Fortunately,

> Due to the low altitude of the event, fragments from this anomaly will likely de-orbit within a few weeks.

if, just saying, someone had a huge fucking laser and wanted something to plink away at, and happened to look up at night, most anywhere on the planet, ran the numbers and figured the odds, and well elo's stuff does blow up regularly
Really? How many Starlink satellites have blown up? How many F9 second stages?
> and well elo's stuff does blow up regularly

[citations needed]

no need for a citation, as anything ELO does that can be used against him is blown out of any proportion in the press, and this is a completly self evident reality, so n number of incidents multiplied by a rabid anti elo press prodcluces a haze, through which even elo, could shoot at his own stuff, and shrug given the cynisism and mountains of false news, that fog becomes tricky to figure out, and so ends up as a pivot point for those who are looking for new tactical advantages.
Tubes must have gotten clogged
Filing “fragment creation event” alongside “rapid unintended disassembly”.
Second? When was the first?

Is this an instance of weaponization of the LEO? No statement from SpaceX?