The orbit of the ISS was able to adjust at the second attempt – NEWSru.com

On the night of May 18, the Mission Control Center specialists have successfully carried out an operation to correct orbital altitude of the International Space Station. It was carried out by a motor ship “Progress M-26″. The first attempt to change the height of the orbit, which took place on the night of May 16, over failed.

“The maneuver is carried out,” – he told Tass source in the space industry. He said that the ship’s engines were working 32 minutes. During this time, the orbit of the ISS has been increased, as planned, to 2.8 km and averaged 405 kilometers.

The press service of the Russian Space Agency have confirmed these data, writes “Interfax” . “On Monday night the ISS orbit adjusted. For this purpose, the engines of the cargo ship” Progress M-26M “. Narrow your new station’s orbit will be about an hour and a half, when the ISS will make a circle around the Earth,” – said the representative of the space agency.

The correction of the ISS orbit needed to create optimal conditions for landing in Kazakhstan manned spacecraft “Soyuz
 TMA-15 “with an international crew.

Who is the International Space Station operate Russians Gennady Padalka, Mikhail Kornienko and Anton Shkaplerov, NASA astronauts Scott Kelly and Terry miles, and European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Kristoforetti. Before you start the first correction and everything was nominally Mission Control Center did not notice any abnormality in the operation of the “Progress”. Both then and now, the crew did not take part in the maneuvers.

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