The head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin said that the International Space Station successfully avoided a collision with a fragment of space debris. It was possible to do this thanks to the inclusion of the engines of the spacecraft "

Rogozin noted that the station made an unscheduled maneuver to avoid a dangerous approach with a fragment of the Kosmos-1408 spacecraft.. Later, he also published a video of turning on the Progress engines to perform a maneuver, which was filmed by ISS cosmonaut Sergei Korsakov..

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As noted by " According to the US Space Command, the Russian Federation tested a DA-ASAT missile, hitting a Russian satellite and creating a field of 1,700 tracked orbital debris in low Earth orbit, which created hundreds of thousands of much smaller objects..

Weapons tests provoked backlash from the international community. NASA chief Bill Nelson said he was "

Recall that on July 29 last year, a new Russian module " Three hours after docking, the module abnormally turned on the engines, which led to the station turning 540 degrees.