Engines of "Progress" took away ISS from space debris

The orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) was corrected by engines of the Russian ship to avoid rapprochement with space debris, reported in ROSKOSMOS STATE CORPORATION ". 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", – is specified in the state corporation statement. Dangerous rapprochement had to happen at 00:50 Moscow time at distance of 285 meters. In state corporation specified that at present the Russian ships on...