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U.S. Navy’s BRICSat-2 Smallsat Causes Russian Concern for ISS Safety

September 14, 2020

Russia’s state space corporation Roscosmos said on Sunday, September 13, that their specialists have decided not to initiate an avoidance maneuver to adjust the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) due to the orbit of a US former military satellite named BRICSat-2.

According to Roscosmos, the Automated Warning System on Hazardous Situations in Outer Space, or ASPOS OKP, indicated that BRICSat-2 poses no threat to the International Space Station — the Russian side of ISS ops has repeatedly warned about the threat posed by low-orbit satellite groupings and “suggests special regulations be worked out.”

The experimental communications satellite, BRICSat-2, was placed into orbit by a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket in 2019 for the US Navy.

Roscosmos said on Saturday the ISS’ could be adjusted in a time span that ranged from 00:00 to 01:00 Moscow time on September 14 due to the approach of the BRICSat-2 satellite.

Filed Under: SmallSat

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