The six US astronauts aboard International Space Station rush to their spacecrafts in case of emergency departure
A defunct Russian satellite has broken up into more than 100 pieces of debris in orbit, forcing astronauts on theto take shelter for about an hour and adding to the mass of space junk already in orbit, US space agencies said.The event took place at around 10am mountain time on Wednesday, Space Command said. It occurred in an orbit near the space station, prompting US astronauts onboard to shelter in their spacecraft for roughly an hour, Nasa’s Space Station office said.
By Thursday afternoon, radars from US space-tracking firm LeoLabs had detected at least 180 pieces, the company said. “Due to the low orbit of this debris cloud, we estimate it’ll be weeks to months before the hazard has passed,” LeoLabs said in a statement to Reuters. “I find it hard to believe they would use such a big satellite as an Asat target,” McDowell said. “But, with the Russians these days, who knows.”
The six US astronauts currently on the space station were alerted by Nasa mission control in Houston around 9pm ET on Wednesday to execute “safe haven” procedures, where each crew member rushes into the spacecraft they arrived in, in case an emergency departure is required.
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