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The two-and-a-half-minute engine burn lowered the space station's altitude by 310 meters - about 1,000 feet - setting it on a new path, safely out of reach of the rocket chunk. ET, Roscosmos fired the engines of its Progress cargo spacecraft, which was docked to the ISS, pushing the orbiting laboratory closer to Earth.

NASA and Russia's space agency, Roscosmos, monitored the chunk throughout Monday, eventually deciding they needed to move the space station.Ībout two hours before the debris was set to pass the ISS, at 2:58 a.m. The International Space Station (ISS) changed course Friday to avoid a possible collision with a piece of an old Pegasus rocket.Ī chunk of that old rocket, which broke apart two years after the United States launched it into Earth's orbit in 1994, was on track to pass close to the ISS Friday morning.

Satellite and rocket debris orbiting Earth regularly threatens to collide with or puncture the ISS.

They squeeze liquid soap and water from pouches onto their skin. On the ISS, astronauts do not shower but rather use liquid soap, water, and rinseless shampoo.

Russia maneuvered the International Space Station away from a chunk of a US rocket from the '90s. Showering on the Shuttle and International Space Station On the Space Shuttle and International Space Station (ISS), astronauts went back to the old-fashioned way of bathing in space.

The State Department has confirmed that the wreckage is from an old Russian satellite destroyed in an anti-satellite weapons test on Monday. In this photo, astronaut Karen Nyberg looks. Russia’s weapons test has generated more than 1,500 space debris, threatening seven astronauts on board the International Space Station, US officials said Monday. This experiment ran for a year and recently the samples were returned to Earth and are now undergoing analysis. Astronauts on the International Space Station have clean breathing air thanks to a chemical filtration system. The upgraded Matiss-2.5 was set up to study how contamination spreads - this time spatially - across the hydrophobic surfaces using patterned samples. This study aimed to better understand how contamination spreads over time across the hydrophobic (water-repellant) and control surfaces.

MatISS-2 had four identical sample holders containing three different types of materials, installed in a single location in Columbus. This provided some baseline data points for researchers, as when they were returned to Earth, researchers characterized the deposits on each surface and used the control material to establish a reference for the level and type of contamination. The first was MatISS-1, and it had four sample holders set up in for six months in three different locations in the European Columbus laboratory module. Three iterations of the experiment have been used on the ISS.

The experiment is sponsored by the French space agency CNES and was conceived of in 2016.