A defunct Russian satellite broke up into nearly 200 pieces of debris forcing astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) to take shelter for about an hour.
NASA, the United States space agency, had been informed that the RESURS-P1 Russian Earth observation satellite had split on Wednesday, instructing the six American crew on the space station to “shelter in their respective spacecraft as a standard precautionary measure”, the ISS said in a post on X.
