The International Space Station (ISS) had to move down to avoid space debris as a result of Russia’s anti-satellite weapons test.
On Thursday, the ISS carried out an evasive operation to put additional distance between itself and the remnants of Russian space debris.
The debris came from the 2021 Russian anti-satellite weapons test, which destroyed the Soviet-era Kosmos 1408 satellite and added more than 1,500 space debris.
“The crew was not threatened and the maneuver did not affect station operation,” NASA said in a statement.
Debris was predicted to be able to travel half a mile from the station without maneuvering.
Russia’s 2021 test, which produced a large amount of debris in space, has been criticized by the United States and the United States as “irresponsible”.
In 2021, Tim Peake, the first British astronaut to travel to space, said that the increased amount of space debris moving around Earth poses a “catastrophic” threat to the ISS.
Last year, a spacecraft traveling at 17,500 mph hit a robotic arm attached to the International Space Station.
Last year, the UK government awarded $1 million to seven private companies to help track space debris as part of a Space Surveillance and Tracking (SST) programme.
The UK will also play a key role in the construction of The Claw, the first satellite to remove space debris.
As part of ESA’s Clearspace-1 mission scheduled for 2025, The Claw uses pincer movements to collect debris and collapse safely before re-entering Earth’s atmosphere in a controlled manner and keeping it away from life.
Source: Metro
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