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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO : FILE PHOTO – The International Space Station was photographed by Expedition 56 crewmembers from a Soyuz Soyuz rocket after undocking. October 4, 2018. NASA/Roscosmos/Handout via REUTERS

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – The International Space Station did a temporary maneuver on Friday in order to avoid a U.S. fragment of a launch vehicle.

Roscosmos’ head Dmitry Rogozin said that the orbit of Roscosmos was lowered by 310m (339yds) in less than three minutes, to prevent a collision with an object from a U.S. spacecraft.

Rogozin stated that Rogozin’s maneuver would not impact the Soyuz MS-20 launch rocket from Baikonur in Kazakhstan on Dec. 8, and the ISS docking.

Space junk (or space debris) is made up of leftover launch vehicles and parts from spacecrafts that are floating around in the air. They could collide with satellites or even the International Space Station.

NASA had to cancel Tuesday’s spacewalk in order to fix a faulty antenna on the ISS because of space debris

Officials from the United States also stated last month that a Russian anti-satellite missile testing had created a low-Earth orbit debris field that could have an impact on the ISS. This would be a danger to future space activities and pose a threat for many years.

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