ISS to avoid a collision with a fragment of an American satellite – Kommersant

                             
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Mission Control Center adjusted the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) due to the risk of collision with space debris, which is a chip of the old American satellite. “Engines docked to the station, Russian space truck” Progress M-26M “were launched in the estimated time. As a result of the maneuver ISS evaded fragment of space debris “- quoted by” RIA Novosti “by the representative of the PMU.

The station is currently working crew of Anton Shkaplerova, Gennady Padalka, Mikhail Kornienko (Roscosmos), Samantha Kristoforetti (European Space Agency), Terry Vertsa and Scott Kelly (NASA). As expected, 14 May to Earth had to go back a few astronauts. However, Roskosmos suffered their return on June 11 because of an accident of space truck “Progress M-27M».

Details of the accident “Progress”, read the article “b” “From the” progress “would suffer all».