Director General of Roskosmos Dmitry Rogozin will meet with NASA representatives who arrived in Moscow. During the negotiations, the parties will discuss the issue of convergence of the International Space Station (ISS) with cosmic garbage, transfers TASS with reference to the source in the rocket and space industry.
Meeting of the head of Roskosmos and NASA representatives will be held on November 16 at 11:00 Moscow. “It is planned to discuss rapprochement of space debris from the ISS that happened on Monday,” the informer emphasized.
It is noted that the negotiations were planned to spend earlier. Due to the incident with cosmic garbage, the circle of topics will expand. The American side at the meeting will be introduced by the head of the NASA program at the ISS Joel Montalbano and Assistant Director NASA Robert Kaban.
Earlier, the representative of the State Department Ned Price accused Russia in the “reckless” tests of antisiparther weapons. According to him, they are threatening the safety of astronauts on the ISS.
November 15 Space garbage that could damage the ISS, flew past the station. Cosmonauts and ground services discussed the possibility of returning the crew to the station. According to the instructions, the crew must be on the ship during the rapprochement of the station with a potentially dangerous object.