Space Station Avoids Debris From Russian Weather Satellite
Credit: ISS: NASA
HOUSTON – U.S. and Russian flight control teams for the International Space Station coordinated an orbital debris avoidance maneuver early April 23 as a precautionary measure to avoid a close pass from a fragment associated with an obsolete Russian weather satellite. The 2-min. 20-sec. maneuver was...
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