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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A defunct Russian satellite has broken up into more than 100 pieces of debris in orbit, forcing astronauts on the International Space Station to take shelter for about an ...
The Russian military conducted a missile test Monday that obliterated a dead satellite and generated a cloud of debris in outer space that forced astronauts aboard the International Space Station ...
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station took shelter in space capsules Monday after a cloud of space debris threatened to pass near the orbiting outpost.
Five astronauts aboard the International Space Station were forced to take shelter and three astronauts aboard the Tiangong space station were endangered by the resulting debris cloud. [3] The Federal Air Transport Agency filed an airspace notice over Plesetsk Cosmodrome that morning; [ 4 ] Federal Assembly committee on defense chair Yury ...
Although there was no immediate threat to other satellites, because this orbit was close to that of the International Space Station its crew took shelter on the docked spacecraft for an hour as a precautionary measure. [7] This breakup likely happened because the satellite's passivation was not performed properly or performed at all.
The destruction of the satellite and missile produced a cloud of space debris that threatened the International Space Station. [ 16 ] [ 5 ] The seven crew members aboard the ISS (four American, two Russian, one German) [ 16 ] were told to put on their spacesuits [ 13 ] and take shelter in the crew capsules [ 17 ] so they could quickly return to ...
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The International Space Station, as seen by a visiting spacecraft in 2021. This article is a list of accidents and incidents related to the International Space Station (ISS). It includes mishaps occurring on board the ISS, flights to and from the space station, as well as other program related incidents.