MOSCOW, March 5 -. RIA Novosti Moscow Mission Control Center (MCC) took up operations on increase in the average altitude of the International Space Station (ISS) by 1.5 kilometers, told RIA Novosti Saturday, the official representative of the PMU.
“The correction is carried out by motor cargo ship” Progress M-29M “, docked to the station. They have to work 500 seconds, resulting in an average orbital altitude of the flight will increase by 1.5 km and will reach 405 kilometers, “- he said
The height of the ISS orbit will be increased to create optimal ballistic conditions for docking with the station a new manned spacecraft.” TMA-20M Soyuz “, the launch of which is scheduled for March 19 Baikonur.
“TMA-20M Soyuz” has to deliver to the ISS Russian cosmonauts Alexei Ovchinin, which first went into space, and Oleg Skripochka and NASA astronaut Jeffrey Williams. Currently on board the station are Yuri Malenchenko (Roscosmos), NASA astronaut Timothy Kopra and British astronaut Timothy Peak.
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