Quoted from Science Alert, Monday (11/15/2021), the crew of astronauts and cosmonauts aboard the ISS maneuvered the space satellite to avoid being hit by space debris on November 11, 2021.
The space debris is debris from the defunct Fengyun-1C weather satellite. The satellite was destroyed in 2007 by a Chinese anti-satellite missile test.
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The satellite exploded into more than 3,500 pieces of debris, most of which are still in orbit. Many have now fallen into the orbit of the ISS.
To avoid collision, spaceship Russian Progress supplies docked at the station fired their rockets for more than six minutes. This changes the speed of the ISS by 0.7 meters per second and increases its orbit, which is already over 400 km (250 mi), by about 1.2 km (0.7 mi).
According to the European Space Agency, it is estimated that there are about 36,500 orbiting debris that are more than 10 cm (4 inches) wide. This space debris is the result of a malfunctioning satellite and rocket tube. There are also about one million between 1 cm and 10 cm, and 330 million measuring 1 mm to 1 cm.
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Most of the trash space it is in low Earth orbit. Because the speed is high enough, even a speck of paint can make a hole in the window of the ISS and an object the size of marble can penetrate the pressure module.
The ISS is one of the most vulnerable targets for space debris. It orbits at 7.66 kilometers (4.75 miles) per second, fast enough to travel from Perth to Brisbane in under eight minutes.
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