Specialists of the Russian Mission Control Center (MCC) TsNIIMash on Wednesday carried out a maneuver to increase the altitude of the International Space Station (ISS) as a result of the operation the average height of the ISS orbit increased by 2.6 km and reached 413.8 kilometers, the representative Roscosmos.
The maneuver was carried out with the help of the Russian cargo ship engines “Progress M-19M”, docked to the ISS.
«Motors cargo spacecraft” Progress M-19M “were included in the 10.51 MSK and worked normally. According to the telemetry, the duration of the engines was 858.7 seconds (just over 14 minutes). As a result, ISS has received the increment speed of 1.5 meters per second. The average orbital altitude stations increased by 2.6 km and reached 413.8 kilometers, “- said the representative of the Russian Federal Space Agency.
He said that after the maneuver parameters of the ISS were to be the following: the minimum height of the ISS orbit above the Earth after the maneuver could reach 413.6 kilometers, the maximum – 426.6 kilometers. “The exact parameters will be known in a few hours after the final calculations of experts,” – said the source.
correction was performed in order to form the working of the ISS before undocking manned spacecraft “Soyuz TMA-07M” and dock with the station “Soyuz TMA-09M”. On the “Soyuz TMA-07M” from the station to Earth on May 14 should return Roscosmos cosmonaut Roman Romanenko, NASA astronaut Thomas Mashburn and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Chris Hadfield. On the “Soyuz TMA-09M”, scheduled for launch on May 29 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, the ISS crew will leave a new expedition to the ISS.
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