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- A tribute to the space-shuttles
- Spacedebris on collision-course with ISS
- Spaceshuttle Atlantis arrived at ISS
- End of the spaceshuttle era
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- Spaceshuttle Endeavour landed and Atlantis ready for launch
- Space shuttle Endeavour at ISS
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ISS moved to dogde space-debris
Wednesday, 27 October 2010 13:50
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Mission control had calculated a 0,001% risk of impact in its previous orbit, so ISS was moved to a 500meter higher orbit today, with a 180sec buring of its manouver-thrusters. Last time the ISS came close to a piece of space-junk was in July, when it passed a cloud of space-debris from an exploded satellite READ MORE at ISS's homepage at NASA |
The International Space Station has been moved to a sligthly higher orbit, to dodge an unknwon piece of space-debris