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May 20, 2021
In order to form the initial ballistic conditions before the launch of the Soyuz MS-19 manned transport vehicle and the landing of the Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft, today, on May 20, 2021, another correction of the orbital altitude of the International Space Station was carried out.
According to the ballistic and navigation support service of the TsNIIMash Flight Control Center (part of the Roscosmos State Corporation), at 20:01 Moscow time, a command was issued to turn on the engines of the Progress MS-16 transport cargo vehicle, which worked for 180 seconds. The pulse was 0.2 m / s. After the maneuver, the average altitude of the station's orbit should increase by 350 meters and amount to 419.69 km.
Progress space cargo reboost ISS. Image Credit: NASA
Currently, the parameters of the orbit of the International Space Station are being refined. This news will be supplemented as new information becomes available.
The launch of the Soyuz MS-19 manned spacecraft is scheduled for October 2021. A crew consisting of Roscosmos cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, director Klim Shipenko and actress Yulia Peresild, who will shoot the first feature film in space, are to arrive at the ISS.
ISS reboost. Video Credit: ESA
Currently, a crew consisting of Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Novitsky and Peter Dubrov, NASA astronauts Mark Vande Hai, Shane Kimbrow, Megan MacArthur, European Space Agency astronaut Tom Peske and Japan Aerospace Research Agency astronaut Akihiko Hoshide are on board the International Space Station.
ROSCOSMOS Press Release: https://www.roscosmos.ru/31110/
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