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Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
joebeone@techpolicy.social ("Joseph Lorenzo Hall, PhD") wrote:
Holy crap, hypervelocity impacts in orbit are nuts: a tiny particle can vaporize and ionize spacecraft material into plasma, and that plasma behaves like a naturally occurring antenna--emitting an EMP that can damage spacecraft electronics. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0734743X24000496