Space debris will approach the International Space Station (ISS) on the morning of November 12, TASS reports with reference to the Roscosmos press service.
It is noted that we are talking about a fragment of the Chinese satellite Fengyun -1C. Now the experts calculate the trajectory of the object and refine the parameters of the rendezvous.
The Fengyun-1C weather satellite was tested on January 11, 2007. It was in orbit at an altitude of 865 km and was destroyed by direct fire from an anti-satellite missile launched from there. the Sichan Cosmodrome.
Earlier it was reported that the Progress MS-17 cargo vehicle; will remove from the ISS more than a ton of waste and various used equipment. The space truck will undock from the orbital station on November 25.