Tight space: Soyuz spaceship forced to dodge old Japanese booster debris

“To prevent collision, ballisticians in our mission control center and their American colleagues teamed up for precise track-defining and ensuring tomorrow’s coupling with the ISS,” Russian space agency Roskosmos said. “The maneuver was conducted at 8:40am (05:40 GMT), and the object was avoided successfully.” The Soyuz-TMA-18M will fly past the dangerous object at 11:30am (08:00 […]