Rogozin: The ISS will make an evasion maneuver from the debris of American satellites December. This was announced by Dmitry Rogozin, General Director of the Roscosmos State Corporation, in his Telegram channel.
at 10.58 Moscow time, an ISS evasion maneuver is planned to prevent a dangerous approach with a fragment of the US Pegasus launch vehicle, ”Rogozin wrote.
The danger for the station, in this case, is the debris of the American Pegasus satellite, which was launched in May 1994 of the year. The minimum rendezvous at a distance of 5.4 km is expected at 13:33 Moscow time.
At the end of November, the International Space Station approached a fragment of the Falcon 9 launch vehicle. The minimum distance between the rocket fragment and the ISS was about 5, 5 kilometers.
On November 10, MCC reported that the ISS had escaped a collision with a wreck of the Chinese meteorological satellite Fengyun-1. The spacecraft was destroyed during testing of anti-satellite weapons.