Russia again put the ISS in danger: the station had to evade the debris of the Russian rocket

Subscribe to not miss the latest and fascinating news from the world of science! In NASA, the last moment was delayed in the open space of two of their astronauts because it approached the ISS for a dangerous distance of a large piece of Russian space debris. It was part of the Old Harvesting Bloc (3. 4 m in diameter), which is used on Soyuz and Zenitna rocket launchers. This piece of space debris approached the station at a distance of less than 400 meters, which is a direct threat to the ISS.

Therefore, the release of two NASA astronauts to space was canceled. Instead, the ISS had to perform an emergency maneuver of evasion so as not to face Russian garbage. To do this, the irony of the Russian space ship "Progress", which was spoken with the orbital station, was used by the irony of fate.

NASA initially decided to move astronauts outside the station for several days, but then after the assessment of the situation, it was decided that Rubio and Cassad would be released into space on Thursday, December 22. "We have been watching this fragment of the Russian accelerating bloc for several days. At first, our data indicated the low probability of the station's threat.

But then we found out that we were dealing with the highest threat to the ICS, so the station had to carry out the evasion maneuver to not face with space debris. At the moment, the station's crew is not threatened and the ISS continues to work in full -time mode, "says Dan Haot, NASA representative. The space station has been experiencing dangerous incidents in a week.

As the focus has already wrote, last week there was an accident with the Russian ship "Soyuz", which is congratulated with the ISS. The accident caused by meteorite was the leakage of cooling fluid. The focus has already written that there was information that the temperature has risen significantly on board, which could disable its devices.

The investigation of the incident is still ongoing, and experts have to find out whether this ship will be able to deliver astronauts from the ISS back to Earth. Focus has already wrote that a new analysis of the situation has shown that a hole was formed in the Union ship, and this really threatens its future mission to land. If this spacecraft is recognized as unusable for further operation, it will be the first in history.