NEW YORK: A spokesman for the US State Department of Foreign Affairs Ned on Monday slams Russia for conducting a “dangerous and irresponsible” missile test that blow up its own satellite, creating a cloud of debris which forced the crew of the International Space Station to take evasive actions.
“Previously today, the Russian Federation with a destructive satellite test from Missile Anti-satellite climbing directly against one of its own satellites,” said the price.
“This test has so far produced more than 1,500 orbital debris that can be tracked and hundreds of thousands of pieces of smaller orbital debris which now threatens the interests of all nations.” NASA hasn’t commented, but Russian giants Roscosmos underestimated the incident.
“Object orbit, which imposes a crew today to move to a spacecraft according to standard procedures, has moved from the ISS orbit.
The station is in the green zone,” Agency tweeted.
“Friends, everything is regular with us! We continue to work in accordance with the program,” Tweeted Anton Shkaplerov, the current post commander.
Astronauts on ISS are forced to prepare for the possibility of evacuation.
Previously, Astronaut NASA King Chari, Tom Marshburn, Kayla Barron, and the European Space Agency Astronaut Matthias Maurer floated to the SpaceX dragon spacecraft for safety, according to a report with spaceflight now.
At the same time, Russian Cosmonauts Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov, as well as Astronaut NASA Mark Vande Hey, boarded the Soyuz spaceship in the Russian segment, added its outlet.
Both spacecraft can be used as a lifeboat to bring crew to earth in an emergency.
US Analyst in the US Industrial In Seradata Tweeted Debris may be caused by a missile test.
“Asat Missile Strike is now suspicious,” Tweet company, refers to old Soviet satellites.
Asat is a high-tech space weapon owned by several countries – only US, Russia, China and India have shown the ability to shoot down their own satellites.