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Roscosmos announced the convergence of a fragment of a Chinese satellite with the ISS on November 12

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A fragment of a Chinese weather satellite will approach the International Space Station (ISS) on November 12. The threat level is already being studied. This was reported to TASS on November 10 in the press service of Roscosmos.

"According to preliminary data, a fragment of the Fengyun-1C spacecraft will approach the ISS on November 12 closer to 4 a.m. Moscow time. At the moment, the trajectories and parameters of the approach are being calculated," the message says.

As specified, the chip will approach the maximum dangerous distance to the station around 03:56 Moscow time.

At the same time, RIA Novosti, citing a source in the rocket and space industry, informs that tonight the Mission Control Center can conduct a maneuver to evade the ISS from space debris.

Fengyun-1C is a meteorological satellite produced in China. It is known that on January 11, 2007, China successfully tested its own anti-satellite weapons. At that time, the FY-1C satellite of the Fengyun series, which was in orbit at an altitude of 865 km, was destroyed by a direct hit of an anti-satellite missile that was launched from a mobile launcher at the Xichang cosmodrome.

In March, it was reported that the Chinese meteorological satellite Yunhai 1-02 collapsed in space, resulting in the formation of 21 fragments. The reasons for the destruction were not named.

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