The International Space Station (ISS) was compelled to move out of the way of an Earth-imaging satellite that was directly in its path.
\nThrusters on the Progress 83 resupply vessel docked on the ISS, were fired for a little more than six minutes to raise the station’s orbit and prevent a collision.
\nThe Argentinian Earth-observation satellite, launched in 2020, Nusat-17, is operated by the geospatial data company Satellogic. Dr. Jonathan McDowell, astronomer and astrophysicist at the Harvard\u2013Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, tweeted the Nusat constellation is one of several whose orbits are slowly encroaching on the ISS’s orbit.
\nManeuvers to avoid collision with ISS is uncommon as the space station has already made a total 32 course corrections to avoid satellites and trackable space debris since 1999, according to a 2022 NASA report.
\nJust last year two path corrections were made by the ISS to avoid debris flying from the Cosmos 1408 satellite, which Russia destroyed in an anti-satellite (ASAT) weapons test in November 2021, Space reported.
\nThis time the station received initial alerts for the potential collision approximately 30 hours ahead of the satellite’s projected closest approach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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