AkaSci 🛰️ on Nostr: The ISS crew was instructed around 9 p.m. EDT to "shelter in their respective ...

The ISS crew was instructed around 9 p.m. EDT to "shelter in their respective spacecraft as a standard precautionary measure after it was informed of a satellite break-up at an altitude near the station’s earlier today."

LeoLabs reports that "a non-operational Russian spacecraft, Resurs P1 (SATNO 39186), released a number of fragments between 13:05 UTC 26 June and 00:51 UTC 27 June."

The satellite was at ~355 km altitude; the ISS orbits at 413 - 422 km altitude.

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