About 6 hr. before SpaceX was to launch a new crew to the International Space Station for NASA in early November, Russia conducted a 6-min. maneuvering burn of the station's core stage, ordered after data showed a potential conjunction with a piece of debris from a 2007 Chinese anti-satellite test.A week later, the International Space Station (ISS) approached a new field of orbital debris, this time caused by Russia itself. There was no time to maneuver away from the cloud of wreckage caused by the Nov. 15 Russian direct ascent anti-satellite (DA-ASAT) missile test, so the astronauts and cosmonauts sheltered in the Russian Soyuz and SpaceX Crew Dragon capsules docked at the station and hoped for the best.
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