ISS has shied away from the debris – BBC Russian

• 23 April 2015

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Mission Control Center (MCC ) unscheduled corrected orbit International Space Station to evade the debris.

“It was made evasive decayed fragments of the spacecraft. reboost the station driven by a motor transport cargo ship” Progress M-26M “- reported in the MCC.

As a result of the maneuver altitude stations increased by 550 meters.

According to a report by NASA, published in early 2015, the amount of debris decreased slightly in recent months, but the problem remains. It is estimated that there are in orbit about 3 thousand tons of debris.