NASA named the object from which the ISS deviated

An unscheduled correction of the orbit altitude of the International Space Station was required to evade a possible collision with the wreckage of the Russian Proton rocket. July 5, it is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the representative of the American aerospace agency NASA. On July 3, Roscosmos announced an unscheduled correction of the ISS orbit. It was noted that this operation was required to evade a possible collision with space debris, but the specific object was not named. It was a wreckage of a stage of a Russian SL-12 rocket launched in September 1987, NASA said. SL-12 missiles in the United States are called Russian carriers of the Proton family. In September 1987, two launches of Proton-K launch vehicles were carried out. On the 3rd, a rocket of this type was used to launch the Cosmos-1870 automatic orbital station into orbit, and on September 16 to launch three satellites of the GLONASS system. As previously reported by the news agency, on July 3, Roscosmos announced that as a result of an unscheduled correction, the altitude of the ISS orbit was raised by 900 meters. To perform this maneuver, the engines of the Progress MS-14 cargo ship, docked with the orbital station, were launched.