The orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) has been raised by more than 500 meters to create conditions for the launch of the Soyuz MS-22 manned spacecraft, the Russian State Space Corporation Roscosmos announced on its Telegram channel.
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Roscosmos said: “Even at a distance of 420 kilometers from the surface of the Earth, the atmosphere of our planet has an impact on the International Space Station, gradually lowering its orbit, and in order to maintain the station at the specified altitude, specialists carry out maneuvers to adjust the orbit.”
The maneuver was conducted using the thrusters of the Progress MS-20 space cargo ship docked at the Zvezda module of the Russian part of the International Space Station.
After the tuning maneuver, the space station’s average orbit was raised by 530 metres, as it determined.
A Soyuz-2.1a carrier rocket with the Soyuz MS-22 manned spacecraft is scheduled to launch on September 21 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. The spacecraft will carry Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergei Prokopyev and Dmitriy Petlin and NASA astronaut Francisco Rubio to the International Space Station.
The crew of the International Space Station’s long-haul flight 67 is currently working aboard the orbital station.
The crew consists of Roscosmos astronauts Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveev and Sergey Korsakov, NASA astronauts Kjell Lindgren, Robert Heinz and Jessica Watkins and European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Christofority.
