MOSCOW. March 17 (Interfax-AVN) - The Russian Mission Control Center (Korolev, Moscow region) has conducted a maneuver of diverting the International Space Station (ISS) from space debris, an ICC spokesperson said.
"A space debris avoidance maneuver was conducted on March 17, 2014," the ICC said on its website on Monday.
The station's orbit height was corrected by the Progress M-22M freighter spacecraft. The ship's engines were started at 5:37 a.m. Moscow time and ran for 429 seconds.
"As a result, the ISS got a speed increase of 0.5 meters per seconds. Its orbit's average height was increased by 0.9 kilometers to 414.65 kilometers," the statement said.
"The maneuver was conducted following a warning from the Houston Mission Control Center," a source close to the Russian Outer Space Control System (OSCS) told Interfax-AVN.
"According to the Russian OSCS, this fragment of space debris posed no danger to the ISS," he said.