Russia is developing vehicles that will drop space debris from orbit so that it burns in the atmosphere, Vadim Khromov, deputy director general of the Tactical Missile Weapons Corporation (KTRV) for corporate construction and investment, said on Monday, January 31.
“While they are at the development stage. These should be maneuvering spacecraft that allow large debris objects to be de-orbited, ”he told TASS.
The idea of the developers is for the vehicles to send debris from orbit to burn in the atmosphere, while the fall should be controlled, Khromov explained.
On November 15, 2021, Russian cosmonauts and an American astronaut had to go to the Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft, where they hid from space debris flying past the International Space Station (ISS).
Anton Shkaplerov, Pyotr Dubrov, and American astronaut Mark Vande Hay took refuge in the Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft. In the event of a rapid approach of the ISS with space debris, the crew traditionally take shelter in spacecraft in case an emergency evacuation is necessary, since it takes several hours to prepare for an evasive maneuver.
At the end of September 2021, an international team of scientists compiled a list of the 50 most dangerous objects for the formation of space debris in low Earth orbit. The first 20 lines are occupied by the spent second stages of Zenit-2 launch vehicles assembled in Ukraine.
Source: IZ
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