International Space Station had to dodge debris, dangerously close to the path of the ISS be dangerous object. To avoid a collision, the ISS rose to one kilometer. Saving maneuver performed by a motor of European cargo spacecraft ATV.
Now the station is not in danger, the “Interfax”.
On the ISS bear watch Russian cosmonaut Maxim Shur, Alexander Samokutyaev, Elena Serova American astronauts Reid Wiseman and Barry Wilmore, a European astronaut Alexander Gerst.
At low orbits of the Earth is 300 thousand objects and fragments of spacecraft with a total mass of up to 5 million tons, which are considered debris. Only 10% of them are cataloged and their orbits are monitored regularly.
Experts NASA discovered a large hole in the radiator and the International Space Station, punched micrometeoroid or space debris. Analysis of the available photos radiators farm P4 showed that the damage occurred between May 12 and June 20, 2014. It is characteristic of the damage caused by blow right through. Size punched holes sotsavlyaet 10 of 13 centimeters.
The annual maintenance of the International Space Station costs the United States, Russia, Europe and Japan in the amount of approximately $ 6 billion. Most of the costs borne by the American NASA. In 2013, a piece of US space cake is valued at about $ 3 billion, followed by the Japanese JAXA – just over 1 billion. European Space Agency and Roscosmos spend on the ISS to 1 billion dollars. In the Russian Space Agency to the ISS costs account for a third of all costs.
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