Being able to get out of the atmosphere of our planet, space junk It’s getting harder and harder every day. From decaying satellites to rocket fragments, straying in our orbit, black lead There are tens of thousands of large and millions of small pieces traveling around like NASA According to the statement made by International Space Station once again he came face to face with this threat.
NASA is preparing to save the Earth!
NASA’s DART mission to save Earth from possible dangers was successfully launched on November 23.
NASA had to delay the march of space junk astronauts!
NASA, after receiving news of a potential security threat from some nearby space debris early this morning International Space Station decided to postpone a spacewalk planned to take place outside Where the debris came from is not yet known. However Russia’s It’s only been two weeks since it blew up one of its orbiting satellites, creating thousands of dangerous fragments that threatened the space station.
on the ISS from the astronauts Kayla Barron and Thomas Marshburnwas wearing spacesuits this morning to replace an antenna outside the station. This Marshburn for the fifth and barron It would be his first spacewalk. However, before leaving the airlock, NASA personnel stopped the spacewalk.
on the ISS another astronaut Mark Vande Heito the flight controllers in the task force “It’s just real life, that’s how things go sometimes and I’m really glad you guys are keeping an eye on our safety.” said. NASA On the other hand, he said that there was not enough time to evaluate the risk of the detected debris, so he postponed the mission until further notice.
Evade maneuvers for the International Space Station have become routine!
Space junk, second time in last two weeks International Space Station spoils his plans. Earlier this month, an old from Chinese weather satellite part that breaks off and moves in orbit of the ISS It was predicted that it would pass within a few hundred meters. For this reason, to avoid collision “space debris avoidance maneuverAn action called ‘ has been performed.
International Space Station in the last 22 years, three of them in 2020, 29 evasive maneuvers performed. the last one September 22, 2020in a Japanese It was made because the space junk belonging to the rocket would pass within about 1.4 kilometers. These numbers are expected to increase in the coming days. Therefore, the systems are ISSIt provides protection against dangers by scanning its surroundings.
Russia, on November 15 blew up one of its own satellites using some kind of kinetic missile. According to the announced data, more than 1700 traceable and thousands of untraceable small space debris have been formed. exploded satellite, to the ISS As it orbited relatively close, the cloud of debris periodically passed close by. But the astronauts were woken early by mission controllers.
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