SPACE JUNK, BETTER PUT UP MY UMBRELLA: A Chunk of Satellite Almost Hit The ISS, Requiring an ‘Urgent Change of Orbit.’ “This week’s incident involved a piece of debris from the defunct Fengyun-1C weather satellite, destroyed in 2007 by a Chinese anti-satellite missile test. The satellite exploded into more than 3,500 pieces of debris, most of which are still orbiting. Many have now fallen into the ISS’s orbital region.”

Related: Here’s a piece that Rob Merges and I wrote on orbital debris a while back.