A Cold War Spy Satellite Named After Farrah Fawcett Just Blew Apart in Orbit (gizmodo.com)

3 points by PLenz 28d ago ↗ HN

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Doesn't it look like it self-destructed at the end of life to protect its secrets?

If so the guy who designed the mechanism after all this time should be proud.

Or a munitions test with the satellite as the target?