American scientists estimate that the Breeze-M upper stage was torn into hundreds of pieces
After the explosion of the Breeze-M upper stage, more than a hundred of its fragments remained in near-Earth orbit. This was reported today by NEWSru with reference to Interfax. The agency, in turn, refers to data from the US Strategic Command website. The agency clarifies that as of November 12, US military experts discovered 110 Briza-M fragments and included them in the catalog of objects that are being monitored, the agency reports.