At a shorter distance from the International Space Station will be found the “unknown object”

The “Unknown” object that will approach tomorrow (8/7) the International Space Station (ISS), will be at a distance of 1.5 km and not 4.6 km as the Russian Space Agency (Roskosmos) had announced earlier today.

The announcement of Roskosmos states that the “unknown” object, which will approach the ISS at a distance of 1.5 km, According to the new data of the Automated system warnings for dangerous situations in the space around the Earth, it belongs to the category of “space junk”, notes the APE-MPE.

Earlier, the head of the information analytical center СHNIImash (affiliated to Roskosmos) Igor Bakaras, told TASS that the Russian Automated System for warning of dangerous situations in space around the Earth in 2020 space debris. Last year, experts were forced to change the space station’s orbit twice to avoid collisions with “space junk”.

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