"And the Chinese (wasn't it?) practiced blowing up things in orbit..."
The Russians and the Americans have done it too. The difference is that the Chinese blew up a satellite in a higher orbit, resulting in a longer-lived debris trail.
Kesslerisation in the lower orbits cleans itselt up after a few deacdes-to-centuries. At higher orbits (IE: SEO - where all the GPS birds are) it's effectively millenia+++ and there have already been a couple of collisions that high up.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
