A Cold War Spy Satellite Named After Farrah Fawcett Just Blew Apart in Orbit

An American spy satellite unexpectedly shattered into pieces, creating a cloud of debris in low-Earth orbit.

The U.S. Space Force’s satellite tracking system confirmed the satellite, officially designated as USA-32, broke apart on September 13 at 5:13 p.m. ET. It was labeled as a fragmentation event, which means the satellite suddenly exploded into smaller pieces, but the cause of its unplanned breakup has yet to be identified.

The Space Force is currently monitoring the resulting debris and says that no…