MOSCOW, 5 March. / TASS /. The height of the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) has been increased by about half a kilometer by a cargo ship “Progress M-29M”. . This was reported by TASS in the press service of the Mission Control Center (MCC)
“The planned height of the ISS orbit correction is completed,” – said the representative of the MCC
According to him, the ship’s engines were. included approximately at 07:15 MSK. They worked for about 500 seconds, raising the average height of the orbit of the station for about one and a half kilometers -. Up to 405 km above the surface of the Earth
The correction was conducted to prepare the ISS for docking with the manned spacecraft “Soyuz TMA-20M”. Start the “Union” is scheduled for 19 March. The structure of the main crew includes Russians Alexey Ovchinin and Oleg Skripochka and American Jeffrey Williams. Their doubles were Sergei Ryzhikov Andrei Borisenko and Robert Kimbrough. It is expected that the next crew will travel to the International Space Station on the ships of the new series “MS Union”.
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