{"id":1168,"date":"2024-06-28T00:05:10","date_gmt":"2024-06-28T00:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/28\/space-station-astronauts-forced-to-shelter-as-russian-satellite-breaks-into-more-than-100-pieces\/"},"modified":"2024-06-28T00:05:10","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T00:05:10","slug":"space-station-astronauts-forced-to-shelter-as-russian-satellite-breaks-into-more-than-100-pieces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/28\/space-station-astronauts-forced-to-shelter-as-russian-satellite-breaks-into-more-than-100-pieces\/","title":{"rendered":"Space station astronauts forced to shelter as Russian satellite breaks into more than 100 pieces"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Astronauts on the International Space Station were forced to take shelter last night after a Russian satellite broke into more than 100 pieces.<\/p>\n<p>The nine astronauts living on the space station were told to shelter in their respective spacecraft, according to <strong>NASA<\/strong>, after the debris was spotted.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sdc-site-outbrain sdc-site-outbrain--AR_6\">    <\/div>\n<p>NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunni Williams boarded their Starliner spacecraft, the Boeing-built capsule that has been docked since June 6 in <strong>its first crewed test mission on the station<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more: Why two NASA astronauts are stuck in space<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Three of the other US astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut went into <strong>SpaceX\u2019s<\/strong> Crew Dragon capsule that flew them to the station in March.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--teads\">        <\/div>\n<p>The sixth US astronaut joined the two remaining cosmonauts in their Russian Soyuz capsule that ferried them there in September last year.<\/p>\n<p>The astronauts emerged from their spacecraft roughly an hour later and resumed their normal work on the station, NASA said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Russian missile theory<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There were no immediate details on what caused the break-up of the Russian Earth observation satellite, which was declared dead in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Experts thought it was unlikely Russia shot it down with a ground-based anti-satellite missile.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI find it hard to believe they would use such a big satellite as an ASAT target,\u201d said Harvard astronomer Jonathan McDowell. \u201cBut, with the Russians these days, who knows?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Russia sparked strong criticism in 2021 when it struck one of its defunct satellites in orbit with a missile launched from its Plesetsk rocket site.<\/p>\n<p>The blast, testing a weapon system ahead of Russia\u2019s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, created thousands of pieces of orbital debris.<\/p>\n<p>Mr McDowell and other analysts speculated the break-up could have been caused by a problem with the satellite, such as leftover fuel on board causing an explosion.<\/p>\n<p>US Space Command, tracking the debris swarm, said there was no immediate threat to other satellites.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on sky.com<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronauts on the International Space Station were forced to take shelter last night after a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1169,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}