ORBITAL DEBRIS SAFELY PASSES INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION
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A small piece of Cosmos 2251 satellite debris safely passed by the International Space Station at 2:38a.m. EDT, Saturday March 24 allowing the six Expedition 30 crew members onboard the orbiting complex to exit their Soyuz spacecraft and resume normal activities.
The crew sheltered in the two Soyuz spacecraft as a precaution, the third time in station history that a crew has had to shelter in place due to the possibility of a conjunction with orbital debris and the first since June 2011. NASA’s Expedition 30 Commander Dan Burbank and Russian cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin were in their Soyuz TMA-22 spacecraft attached to the Poisk module on the space-facing side of the Zvezda service module, while cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, NASA’s Don Pettit and Andre Kuipers of the European Space Agency were in their Soyuz TMA-03M spacecraft on the Earth-facing side of the Zarya module.
The piece of debris was a remnant of a Feb. 10, 2009 collision between the dormant Cosmos 2251 satellite and an operational Iridium 33 communications satellite. The collision added about 2,000 trackable items to the orbital debris catalog. At the time of closest approach, the debris was moving from left to right in front of the station at an estimated overall miss distance of between 11 and 14 kilometers and a radial miss distance of 120 meters.
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There’s a bit of light flashing just after 23:09
considering the debris was aparently pretty small (a few inches in diameter maybe) and passed the station several kilometers away it is highly doubtful you could have seen anything on any video.
it would be cool tho if there was a website where you could choose what camera angle you wanna see, inside and outside.
data downstream capability probably make this impossible right now. =/
Great job, well done!
There you go again to brick any more from this communication satellites shit, please !
Thx 😉
the ISS is approximately 990,000 lb, 236 ft long, 354 ft wide and 66 ft tall, so it is big.
at 25:00 minutes in the far left screen- a ufo comes very close to the iss.
about the same as watching golf.….…
Excellence in safety!
So does R2 stay on the ISS or does he get a escape seat too? 🙂
R2 is fine on his own, he has his own rockets.
the answer is out there!
I’ve been in that room… it’s so awesome!
They really need to figure out away to capture the debris coming in close contact with the space station so they don’t have to keep doing this.
and that just because an already out of service russian military communications satellite collided with an iridium communications satellite (no 33). There is way more debris around the earth, I’d actually call it pollution.
Sadly you can’t just put some net over there and collect all of it
Thanks again Nasa we feel so proud to see you and your brave astronauts and countless incredibly knowledgeable people working behind the scenes to take mankind into the wonderful age of space exploration. I for one feel very grateful and humble to see these beautiful views.
Great stuff!! i can’t wait! Now i only need someone to send a webcam to the moon and i’m set 😀
sadly only 5200 people care :-/ while rihanna has millions of clicks. strange world.
Our whole planet should be focused on space exporation and science. Its embarrassing and horrible we still waste resources on religions and armies.
I tell ya I’d like to know which direction this is coming from if I were up there.
It is necessary. You can’t have science and space exploration when people are trying to blow you up. Armies are necessary to keep enemies at bay.
Agreed, but I’m just saying that’s not possible without brute force sometimes. There will always be people in the world with evil intentions and plans. Even the human body, a beautifully efficient and amazing organism, has an immune system.
focusing on space exploration would be kinda pointless since you cant live out there for too long and the money required to bring people out there is expensive
Pointless? You are living on a small island that will sink soon. You dont think its a good idea to go find other islands?
And money is not the issue. If you are in a burning building, you dont say its too expensive to evacuate. You do everything you can, its live or die.
You are thinking too small. We can terraform Mars. We can mine ice from comets to produce fuel and oxygen, extending mission time in space. And eventually we can travel to other solarsystems and terraform other planets.
sounds pretty legit lol
No we are not one planet. We are tiny groups of stupid superstitious tribal primates in an insane arms race.
Goverments. Countries.
The generation who lived through the world wars is still alive, and they were completely traumatised and fucked up by the wars. They run the show, and they made a insane effort to prepare to insane wars in the future. Thats the legacy we are left with.
Humanity worries about a war with the tribe next door.
In national level, and in family level, and in individual level. You cant say you dont worry about crime and violence at all.
They asked how to clean up space from all this debris. well. I have the answer, and it can be found in the Animation show Planetes.
Would have been pretty cool if they caught it pass on camera!
is this the plot of Gravity?? 😛
Love space
23:45
This is worse than the cheap Hollywood low budget movie. With all these billions of plunked down money to the Space Agency, all we get are a stupid office camera, low res station space feeds and some 3D graphics
So the ISS, a space station dedicated to the research of space doesn’t have cameras in all areas covering the outside views of the station? “Hey boss we just saw an alien craft on the way to Earth!” “Thanks guys, do you have the alien craft on video?” “No, sorry.”
I’m watching this at 3 am eastern us time on May 29th 2019. The iss is flying over Australia as I type this funnily enough
Why was there a baseball bat lying at the flight controll room
April 2021 Another Hubcap size debris near misses the Dragon crew .
watched it live
I’m real sick of seeing nothing
clean up your litter NASA. why is it ok for NASA to not be concerned about their litter or any space program launching stuff into space. shouldnt their be a concern over figuring out how to collect it before you guys launch anything else. geez. or you gonna wait until something completely destroys the ISS and everyone in it and all youve worked for up to the point.