ISS - International Space Station patch.
04/02/2012
April 1 in accordance with the program to ensure the ballistic flight of the International Space Station, a test was carried out of its orbit correction using the two main engines of the cargo ship ATV-3 "Edoardo Amaldi." Maintaining the desired spatial position of the ISS to the motor orientation of the Russian Service Module "Zvezda" and the cargo ship "Progress M-14M."
ISS & ATV
According to the ballistic Service Mission Control Center Engineering Research Institute engines were included in the 1 o'clock 54 minutes 04 seconds Moscow Time (March 31 at 21:54:04 GMT) and worked for 440 seconds.
As a result, ISS has added impetus to the 1 meter per second. The average height of its orbit has increased by 1.7 kilometers and reached 389.78 km.
Image, Text, Credits: Press-service of Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos PAO) and the PCO / NASA / Translation: Orbiter.ch.
Original text in Russian: http://www.federalspace.ru/main.php?id=2&nid=18881
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