Station Fires Engines to Avoid Orbital Debris

At 10:36 p.m. EDT, ground controllers moved the International Space Station away from a piece of orbital debris. The object is a relic from a collision between the COSMOS 2251 and Iridium 33 satellites in February 2009 and had been close to the station?s orbit prior to the debris avoidance maneuver (DAM).

The DAM, performed during the Expedition 27 crew sleep period, used thrusters from three spacecraft, the European Space Agency?s Johannes Kepler Automated Transfer Vehicle 2 (ATV2), the [...]

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