Well there are other reasons for debris besides just satellites going out of com...

		stemlord on Sept 14, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Steve Wozniak announces private space company to c... Well there are other reasons for debris besides just satellites going out of commission. For example in 2007 China deliberately blew up the Fenyun-1C satellite for some kind of research purpose accounting for probably thousands of current pieces of debris up there.

“Research” - they were testing their orbital targeting capabilities.