The astronaut on ISS is frightened

Three astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) were worried after the US Space and Aeronautics Agency (NASA) issued a warning on November 23, they had to take refuge in the ship. Soyuz universe could be safe if a satellite fragment hit the station.

A fragment of China's weather tracking satellite destroyed in 2007 flew near ISS and is likely to cause a collision, according to NASA's announcement.

There are three astronauts currently working on ISS

According to the initial calculation, this 10cm fragment flew only about 850m away from ISS at 4:43 pm on November 23 (VN time) and NASA said that three astronauts on the station were Anton Shkaplerov, Anatoly Ivanishin (with of Russia) and Dan Burbank (USA) may have to quickly enter the shelter on Soyuz TMA-22.

However, shortly afterwards, Russia's Mission Control Center issued a dangerous denial notice that astronauts on ISS might face, according to RIA Novosti . At the same time, NASA also lowered the danger level of the incident and said ISS is still within the safe limits of space garbage.

"Without a threat of collisions between ISS and satellite debris, astronauts do not need to take refuge in the Soyuz spacecraft because the debris flies past 170km from the station , " a Center spokesman said. Russian mission control said.

Reportedly, China 's Fengyun 1C weather - tracking satellite in January 2007 was fired by the country. The bombardment left more than 150,000 fragments flying around Earth's orbit, according to NASA estimates.

Soyuz train

These pieces of cosmic trash are a constant danger to ISS and other active satellites. However, in 11 years of human presence on the station, the astronauts had only two emergency shelters on the Soyuz to immediately leave the station if a collision occurred.

It was in March 2009, a metal piece (of a satellite rocket engine) flew 5 km away from the station, forcing three astronauts to stay in Soyuz for 10 minutes. In June 2011, another object was 300 meters away from the station, causing six astronauts to immediately move into two Soyuz ships sheltering for danger.