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ISS Astronauts Take Shelter In Boeing Starliner After Satellite Breakup

Nine astronauts on the International Space Station briefly took shelter late Wednesday as a satellite broke up in low Earth orbit, creating a "debris-generating event." Space.com reports: The Expedition 71 crew on the International Space Station (ISS) went to their three spacecraft, including Boein...

Nine astronauts aboard the International Space Station were forced to take shelter late Wednesday when a satellite broke up in low Earth orbit. Space.com reports: The Expedition 71 crew on the International Space Station (ISS) went to their three spacecraft, including Boeing Starliner, shortly after 9 p.m. EDT (0200 GMT), according to a brief NASA update on X, formerly known as Twitter. "Early indications are that a non-operational Russian spacecraft, Resurs-P1 [or] SATNO 39186, released a number of fragments," the company wrote on X. U.S. Space Command also reported the Resurs-P1 event, saying on X that over 100 pieces of trackable debris were generated.

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