The ISS has evaded cosmic garbage

The International Space Station (ISS) increased the average height of its orbit by 1.5 km to evade its safety the fragment of the American telecommunications satellite Iridium-33. It is reported by " Interfax " from the words of a source in the flight control center.

“The station was transferred to the safe height of the orbit,” the agency told the Central Department Store.

Earlier, the NASA agency warned the MSC crew that on Friday, January 13, at 22:38 Moscow time and Saturday, January 14, at 00:10, one of the fragments of the Iridium 33 apparatus should come closer to the station, which in February 2009 collided with the Russian satellite Cosmos-2251. It was decided to make a manner in order to avoid a collision.