ISS corrected an orbit for evasion from space debris

Moscow. June 16. information agency "Interfaks" - the Russian experts carried out correction of an orbit of ISS for evasion from space debris, reported in "Roskosmosm". "At 22:03 Moscow time engines of the cargo ship MS-20 Progress were switched on: they worked 275 with, and impulse size thus made 0,5 m/s. As a result the average height of an orbit of station increased by 890 m", - reported in state corporation. "According to our TsUPA, dangerous rapprochement was predicted at 00:50 Moscow time at distance of 285 meters", - is spoken in the message. Later "Roskosmos" chapter ROSKOSMOS STATE CORPORATION Dmitry Rogozin added that ISS was necessary to evade from a fragment...