
The ISS Station had to fire its thrusters for 5 minutes and 5 seconds to avoid debris from the Russian Cosmos 1408 satellites that was an integral part of a Russian ASAT (Anti-Satellite weapon) test that occurred on November 4, 2021.
NASA issued the following statement: “…the International Space Station’s Progress 81 thrusters fired for 5 minutes, 5 seconds in a Pre-Determined Debris Avoidance Maneuver (PDAM) to provide the complex an extra measure of distance away from the predicted track of a fragment of Russian Cosmos 1408 debris.”
Normal ISS operations where not interrupted by this ISS weave away from the more than 1,500 debris elements. Such orbiting disorders are of greater and greater concern for space faring craft as even a simple debris strike against one object, such as a satellite, could occasion a highly dangerous chain reaction with other space elements, making launches far more perilous.