Russian spacecraft Progress took the ISS away from a collision in Space
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Roskosmos: Progress MS-22 took the ISS away from space debris for 3 minutes
Roskosmos in its telegram channel informed on Sunday that the Progress MS-22 spacecraft steered the International Space Station (ISS) away from space debris.
The mission control center recorded that on August 6, at 5:03 Moscow time, the engines of the ship docked to the Zvezda module were launched. They worked for 196 seconds, as a result of the maneuver performed by the ship, the height of the station’s orbit increased by half a kilometer (up to 416.4 km).
Russian cosmonauts Sergei Prokopiev, Dmitry Petelin and Andrey Fedyaev, NASA astronauts Francisco Rubio, Woody Hoburgh and Stephen Bowen, as well as UAE astronaut Sultan al-Neyadi are currently working on the ISS.
On August 1, the American segment of the station suffered a power outage due to a power surge. Now nothing threatens the crew of the station, the equipment of the Russian segment of the ISS is working normally.
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