Saturday, May 14, 2016

Astronaut reveals: something damaged the window of the International Space Station – News Gazeta.pl

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Space junk has damaged the window Cupola module belonging to the International Space Station. Photo placed on his Twitter astronaut Tim Peake. – I am often asked whether the ISS passed meetings with orbital debris. So, here splinter on the window Cupoli – wrote.

The crack is approx. 7 mm in diameter – said the European Space Agency. Shrapnel that caused it was a little repair. Scientists suspect that this could be eg. A piece of metal.

Damage caused no danger, but – as emphasized by the European Space Agency – an object larger than 1 cm could pierce the shell, and about 10-cm lead to disaster. Therefore, routing space debris are carefully monitored.

And it looks like Cupola. The module is used, among others, for observation:

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