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Shortly before Christmas, a US Air Force weather satellite shattered into 50 pieces: one of four recent ‘fragmentation’ events in orbit that have experts raising the alarm about the so called ‘Kessler Syndrome’. Named after American astrophysicist Donald Kessler — who first warned of its risks in 1978 — Kessler Syndrome basically describes a ‘space junk’ chain reaction in which hardware smashing into each other in orbit creates runaway destruction.