A spent Briz-M upper stage of Russia's Proton rocket broke up in the near-Earth orbit, but its fragments do not pose any real threat to telecommunications satellites, according to Air Force Capt. Nicholas Mercurio, a spokesman for U.S. Strategic Command's Joint Functional Component Command for Space.

Source: Russian Briz-M upper stage breaks up in geosynchronous orbit


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