ISS - International Space Station patch / ESA - ATV-3 Edoardo Amaldi Mission patch.
04/05/2012
May 4, in accordance with the flight program of the International Space Station to provide optimum conditions for its rendezvous and docking with the manned spacecraft Soyuz TMA-04M (launch is scheduled for May 15, 2012), the correction of the ISS orbit.
ATV reboost ISS
The correction is made using the engines of European cargo spacecraft ATV-3 Edoardo Amaldi, resulting in an average height of the orbit of the ISS has increased by 5.1 kilometers and is 399 kilometers.
The operation carried out in normal mode, in accordance with the calculations of ballistic Service Mission Control Center Engineering Research Institute.
ATV reboost
The crew of the station as part of the commander - Oleg Kononenko (Roscosmos), flight engineers Andre Cowper (ESA) and Donald Pettit (NASA) during the maneuver worked on the planned program. The atmosphere in low Earth orbit was controlled by Mission Control Center, located in suburban Houston and American Queen.
Original texr in Russian: http://www.federalspace.ru/main.php?id=2&nid=19045
Image, Video, Text, Credits: Press-service of Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos PAO) and the PCO / ESA / EADS / Translation: Orbiter.ch.
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