RIA Novosti: ISS may collide with Chinese space debris ISS) from a collision with Chinese space debris, RIA Novosti reports, citing a source in the rocket and space industry.
According to the interlocutor, the maneuver can be carried out today, November 10, closer to midnight. It is expected that the ISS orbit with the help of the Progress MS-18 cargo vehicle can be raised to an altitude of 1.2 kilometers.
One of the approximately 2.5 thousand fragments of the Chinese meteorological satellite Fengyun-1C, which threatens the ISS, was formed in January 2007 as a result of testing by Beijing anti-satellite weapons.
Roskosmos said that they are studying the available data. “According to preliminary information, a fragment of the Fengyun-1C spacecraft will approach the International Space Station on November 12 at about 4 am Moscow time,” the state corporation said.
In May 2009, AFP reported that the American spacecraft Atlantis and a fragment of the Fengyun-1C spacecraft approached at a distance of about 3 kilometers.