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Oct. 7, 2020
In accordance with the flight program of the International Space Station, on October 7, 2020, specialists of the State Corporation Roscosmos carried out a planned correction of the ISS orbit. For this purpose, the engines of the Progress MS-14 cargo vehicle docked to the Zvezda module were automatically switched on at 11:26 Moscow time. They worked for 412.9 s, as a result of which the average altitude of the station's orbit decreased by 1.3 km and amounted to approximately 418.6 km above the Earth's surface.
International Space Station (ISS)
The orbit was corrected in full accordance with the calculated data. According to the ballistic and navigation support service of the TsNIIMash Flight Control Center (part of the Roscosmos State Corporation), the orbital parameters of the space station after the correction were:
- Orbital period: 92.88 min;
- Orbital inclination: 51.66 degrees;
- Minimum height above the surface of the Earth: 417.96 km;
- Maximum height above the Earth's surface: 436.55 km.
The purpose of the correction was the formation of ballistic conditions before the launch and docking of the Soyuz MS-17 manned spacecraft, which are scheduled for October 14, 2020. The main crew of the long-term expedition ISS-64 includes Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergei Ryzhikov and Sergei Kud-Sverchkov, as well as NASA astronaut Kathleen Rubins. The backup crew consists of cosmonauts Oleg Novitsky, Peter Dubrov, and astronaut Mark Vande Hai. At present, both crews are in prelaunch training at the Baikonur cosmodrome.
ROSCOSMOS Press Release: https://www.roscosmos.ru/29368/
International Space Station (ISS): https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html
Image, Text, Credits: ROSCOSMOS/NASA/Orbiter.ch Aerospace/Roland Berga.
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