International Space Station nearly collides with Russian space junk

[Chris]

International Space Station nearly collides with Russian space junk
ISS forced to use five minute “pre-determined debris avoidance maneuver” thruster burn to move out of the path of oncoming satellite debris.
Dan Verbin
Oct 25, 2022

The International Space Station (ISS) barely avoided colliding with Russian space debris, maneuvering out of the way with its thrusters to avoid disaster, NASA announced on Monday evening. NASA said in a statement that the ISS swerved out of the way by implementing a five minute and five second burn of its thrusters to dodge a piece of Russia’s Cosmos 1408 satellite. Russia destroyed the satellite in November 2021 during a test of a direct-ascent anti-satellite (DA-ASAT) missile that resulted in a trail of 1,500 pieces of debris.

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[SkyRider]

Might have been the same space debris that almost did in Sandra Bullock.

 

[Ghoti Ichthus]

Maybe Greenpeace can go up there and clean up the environmental disaster we're creating with all the space litter. If we're not careful and change our ways, we'll have a giant metal and plastic island up there, just like the giant garbage island in the Pacific.