A Growing Dent in Earth’s Skies Is Threatening Our Satellites
Recent observations show the region expanding westward and also splitting in two.

There’s a pothole in space. Instead of puncturing the tires of a car, this one can hit low-orbit satellites and spacecraft and knock them out of function.
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