The head of Russia's space agency said that the International Space Station performed a maneuver to avoid a fragment of a US launch vehicle.
The director general of the Russian space agency said that the station dropped by over 300 metres to avoid a close encounter with a particle from the American vessel.
The launch of the rocket from Baikonur will not be affected by the maneuver.
Space junk is a collection of launch vehicles and parts of a spaceship that are thrown away and are at risk of colliding with satellites or the International Space Station.
The International Space Station has zero-gravity Olympics.
The spacewalk was supposed to be done on Tuesday to replace the faulty antenna.
US officials said last month that an anti-satellite missile test carried out by Russia had created a debris field in low- Earth orbit that would pose a hazard to space activities for years.
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