MCC at the second attempt successfully corrected the orbit of the ISS – RBC

The International Space Station

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Mission Control Center (MCC) has successfully conducted an operation to correct the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) with the ship” Progress “. This RIA Novosti reported, citing a source in the space industry.

«According to preliminary information, everything went normally. The engines were running at the estimated time and spent 30 minutes. The magnitude of the pulse is 1.75 meters per second “, – he told the agency. As explained in the Federal Space Agency, the height of the orbit of the station was increased by 2.8 km.

Adjust orbit it was only at the second attempt. The first was made on the night of May 16, but the operation failed to carry out due to the fact that “progress” with the engine.

This operation was necessary to carry out in order to provide a comfortable environment for the astronauts landing to be held on June 11, and to prepare the station for docking with another spacecraft in early July.

Because of the incident with the “progress” had little to delay the launch of the carrier rocket “Proton” with the Mexican satellite on board. At the same time as the launch it was unsuccessful: the accident occurred and the unit was lost, and the wreckage of the rocket burned in the atmosphere. According to preliminary information, the cause of the accident was the failure of the third stage steering engine. For this reason, in the summer of last year was lost when running satellite “Express AM4R».