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The decaying Russian space program continues to cause serious problems for the world: A Russian Breeze M rocket stage, left with loaded fuel tanks after an August launch failure, exploded in orbit Oct. 16, raising concerns of the U.S. military, NASA and global satellite operators on the lookout for collision threats from hundreds of new space debris fragments.https://parabolicarc.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/space_debris-293x300.jpg