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Russia 's Progress 89 spacecraft fired its thrusters for three and a half minutes on Monday, November 25 , to steer the station clear of a piece of orbiting junk.
This maneuver raised the station’s orbit by approximately 1,650 feet ( 500 meters ) This event followed a similar maneuver on November 19 , when the Progress 89 .
That earlier maneuver helped the ISS avoid a fragment from a defunct defense meteorological satellite.
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