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On March 29, 2026, SpaceX's Starlink-34343 broke apart at 560 km altitude, scattering tens of trackable debris fragments — the second such fragmentation event in less than four months. While SpaceX says the debris poses no immediate threat to the ISS or NASA's Artemis II mission, the repeated anomalies raise questions about systemic failure modes in a constellation of more than 10,000 satellites and the adequacy of existing regulatory frameworks to manage orbital debris risk at this scale.