MOSCOW, March 5 – RIA Novosti The average height of the flight to the International Space Station (ISS) after the planned correction of the orbit has increased by 1.5 kilometers and was about 405.2 kilometers, said on Saturday, RIA Novosti. News spokesman mission control Center (MCC).
“The correction is completed. Engines cargo spacecraft” Progress M-29M “worked for about 8 minutes, bringing the average height of the orbit of the flight increased by 1.5 kilometers and reached 405.2 kilometers, “- said
The height of the ISS orbit raised to create optimal conditions for ballistic docking station with a new manned spacecraft.” TMA-20M Soyuz “, the launch of which is scheduled for March 19 <. /> p>
“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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