Now 1,500 large and hundreds of thousands of small pieces from the exploded satellite are floating around in space.
– The crew was awakened and asked to close the hatches at the station, while they kept the door between the Russian and American part of the station open, Nasa states.
Then the crew had to go in the rescue vessel and were there for two hours.
The Russian government, for example, has not responded to the harsh criticism, but it is known that this happened when they were to test a missile calculated to hit satellites.
“The explosion of the satellite created a large cloud of wreckage that forced the crew of the ISS to seek refuge,” said spokesman Ned Price in the US State Department.
According to the United States, the explosion resulted in 1,500 pieces of traceable space debris and hundreds of thousands of smaller pieces of space debris.
The crew of the ISS no. Left Anton Shkaplerov, Tom Marshburn, Kayla Barron, Raja Chari, Matthias Maurer, Mark Vande Hei and Pyotr Dubrov.
Photo: AFP
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Russia will not warn the United States in advance of the test.
“It is inconceivable that Russia could not only endanger the American and international astronaut partners on the ISS, but also Russia’s own cosmonauts,” Nasa chief Bill Nelson said last night. according to CNN.
The crew of the Chinese space station, so-called taikonauts, were also in danger, says Nasa.
US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken is also not satisfied with the Russian mistrust test.
“Garbage from this dangerous and irresponsible test will now snag satellites and other space objects that are crucial to all nations’ security and economic and scientific interests for decades to come,” Blinken said.
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