The scare that all the members of the International Space Station got, and that seemed more like a science fiction movie plot.
The International Space Station has been in the news lately, not only in relation to Starliner, but also due to a recent emergency that, fortunately, has now been overcome.
According to the information provided by the company itself International Space StationDuring the early hours of last Thursday, NASA ordered the crew on board to take refuge in their spacecraft due to imminent danger.
According to comments, The agency detected the breakup of a Russian satellite at a distance close to that of the orbital laboratorywith the consequent danger of debris impact.
The crew of Expedition 71 on the International Space Station headed to two emergency evacuation capsules, while guest crew members Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who are currently docked at the ISS, had to temporarily return to the Starliner.
It should be noted that the International Space Station has two other ships docked: the Russian Soyuz for three members and a SpaceX Dragon for four members.
After NASA finished monitoring the matter, confirmed that there was no danger of impact from the debris of the Russian satelliteso the crew was authorized to exit the spacecraft and return to the station to resume their work.
Which satellite endangered everything?
The satellite that was destroyed was the Russian Resurs-P1, which had been dedicated to Earth observation for many years and also to capture high-resolution images.
Although it was launched at the end of June 2013, it stopped working completely in December 2021, until its disintegration in the last few hours.
Space junk could be a big problem in a few decades, potentially affecting not only the International Space Station, but any other operation that has to be carried out at such altitude around our planet.
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