After the shooting, the seven people currently on board the ISS had to take temporary refuge in their ships in order to prepare for a possible emergency evacuation.
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Diplomatic mess in space. Russia admitted on Tuesday (November 16) that it had carried out “with success” a test shot against one of its old satellites in orbit, confirming Washington’s thesis, which accused Moscow of having destroyed a machine that generated a “cloud” debris potentially dangerous to the International Space Station.
>> What we know about the debris cloud that forced the ISS astronauts to take refuge in their ships
After the shooting, the seven people currently on board the ISS had to take temporary refuge in their ships in order to prepare for a possible emergency evacuation.
“To say that the Russian Federation creates risks for the civilian exploitation of space is hypocritical to say the least. There is no such fact.”Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said a few minutes after the army recognized the shot that destroyed “the Tselina-D spacecraft, in orbit since 1982 and inactive”.
In the morning, neither the Kremlin, nor the government nor the army had commented on the situation. The Russian space agency Roscosmos, for its part, confined itself to saying that its “main priority” was the safety of the ISS and its crew. “Only joint efforts of all space powers can ensure as secure a coexistence as possible and operations in space.”, Roscosmos said in a statement (in Russian).