The International Space Station (ISS) has had to change course to avoid debris from a Soviet spy satellite destroyed seven months ago.
This was announced by the head of the Russian space agency Roskosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, on Telegram on Thursday.
The engines of the docked Progress spacecraft have altered the space station's trajectory to avoid dangerously approaching debris from the Kosmos-1408 satellite.
When testing an anti-satellite weapon on November 15, 2021, the Russian military destroyed the artificial celestial body.
Even then there was a sharp protest from the USA because the debris could endanger the ISS.
When the space station first flew through the debris field, the crew had to put on space suits to be on the safe side and go into the escape capsule.
But overall, the Russian military saw no threat to the station.
The Soviet reconnaissance satellite Kosmos-1408 was launched in 1982.
It worked for two years and then stayed in space.
Three Russian cosmonauts, two Americans, one American and one Italian are currently working on the ISS.