Space specialist Nazarenko: tests confused with a collision of a satellite with a debris “Both the Americans and we have sufficiently developed control systems,” he said.
Earlier, the US State Department accused Russia of testing anti-satellite weapons, after which 1,500 debris and hundreds of thousands of smaller fragments were allegedly formed. threatening the safety of the ISS.
Given the information about the formation of a large number of debris, Nazarenko suggested that these were not tests, but an accidental collision of a satellite with a debris. “About 15 years ago, our satellite collided with a Chinese debris at an altitude of somewhere over 700 kilometers, and 1,500 small debris was formed. According to my estimates (and I spent a lot of time assessing these hazards), the current probability of collision of large objects with the formation of a large number of debris is about one collision in five years. The last collision was more than five years ago, so it is possible that there was a collision, ”the specialist explained.