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Sep. 24, 2021
The orbital altitude of the International Space Station was adjusted in preparation for the arrival of the Soyuz MS-19 manned transport vehicle and the return of the Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft. According to preliminary data, after the corrective maneuver, the station's orbit altitude decreased by 1.2 km.
On Friday, September 24, 2021, at 17:38 Moscow time, a command was issued and the engines of the Zvezda service module of the ISS Russian segment were turned on. The two correcting motors in the normal mode worked for 47.5 seconds, and the impulse value was 0.65 m / s. At present, specialists from the ballistic and navigation support service of the TsNIIMash Flight Control Center (part of the Roscosmos State Corporation) are studying telemetric information.
Currently, seven crew members are on board the International Space Station: Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Novitsky and Petr Dubrov, NASA astronauts Mark Vande Hei, Shane Kimbrough and Megan MacArthur, European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Pesquet, and JAXA astronaut Akihiko Hoshide. Roscosmos cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, as well as space flight participants - actress Yulia Peresild and director Klim Shipenko are to arrive on the Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft.
The launch of the Soyuz-2.1a carrier rocket with the Soyuz MS-19 manned transport vehicle is scheduled for October 5, 2021 from the Baikonur cosmodrome. It is expected that on October 17 Peresild and Shipenko will return to Earth on the Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft together with Roskosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky.
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https://orbiterchspacenews.blogspot.com/2021/09/the-iss-orbit-on-friday-will-be-reduced.html
ISS orbit altitude correction is scheduled for September 24
https://orbiterchspacenews.blogspot.com/2021/09/iss-orbit-altitude-correction-is.html
Related links:
ROSCOSMOS Press Release: https://www.roscosmos.ru/32721/
TsNIIMash: https://www.roscosmos.ru/tag/cniimash/
MCC: https://www.roscosmos.ru/tag/cup/
Soyuz MS-18: https://www.roscosmos.ru/tag/sojuz-ms-18/
Soyuz MS-19: https://www.roscosmos.ru/tag/sojuz-ms-19/
International Space Station (ISS): https://www.roscosmos.ru/tag/mks/
Image, Text, Credits: ROSCOSMOS/MCC/Orbiter.ch Aerospace/Roland Berga.
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