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+===== Yaogan-50 =====
+== Chinese Satellite Breaks Apart in Rare Orbit That Could Hold Debris for Centuries ==
+Yaogan-50 generated a large filed of debris in a highly retrograde orbit.
+Passant Rabie - September 8, 2026, 2:20 pm ET
+A reconnaissance satellite suffered an unidentified anomaly and broke apart into pieces. Now, those fragments are trapped in a high altitude above Earth, where they risk a head-on collision with another object.
+China’s Yaogan-50 (02) satellite launched on March 15, 2026, on board a Long March 6A rocket. The satellite successfully reached its operational orbit—a highly retrograde orbit, meaning that it travels in the opposite direction of Earth’s rotation at an altitude of approximately 590 miles (952 kilometers).
+A few months into its mission, however, the satellite appears to have malfunctioned. On September 4, the U.S. Space Force cataloged 43 debris objects from the breakup of Yaogan-50 (02), according to Jonathan McDowell, a former astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics who tracks space activity.
+https://gizmodo.com/chinese-satellite-breaks-apart-in-rare-orbit-that-could-hold-debris-for-centuries-2000808645
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+====== Planet Labs ======
+== Planet Labs' Open Satellite Feed ==
+Mark Litwintschik - Tue 08 September 2026
+Planet Labs is a 15-year-old, San Francisco-based satellite manufacturer and constellation operator. They operate or have operated four different constellations throughout their history and capture imagery of the entire Earth's landmasses every day. As of this writing, LinkedIn lists the firm as having 1,751 associated members.
+Their CEO, Will Marshall, is one of the firm's three co-founders. In February, he posted images alongside the Secretary General of NATO, Mark Rutte, French President Emmanuel Macron and Kaja Kallas, who was Estonia's Prime Minister between 2021 and 2024 and is now Vice-President of the European Commission.
+https://tech.marksblogg.com/planet-labs-open-satellite-feed.html