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Sep. 23, 2021
The next correction of the orbit of the International Space Station is scheduled for September 24, 2021. According to preliminary data from the ballistic and navigation service of the TsNIIMash Mission Control Center (part of the Roscosmos State Corporation), the engines of the Zvezda service module of the ISS Russian segment will be turned on at 17:38 Moscow time and will run for 47.5 seconds. After carrying out the corrective maneuver, the station's orbit height should decrease by 1.2 km.
The parameters of the ISS orbit after the corrective maneuver should be:
- Orbital period: 92.91 min;
- Orbital inclination: 51.62 degrees;
- Minimum altitude: 417.49 km;
- Maximum height: 438.83 km;
- The average orbit height is 419.98 km.
Now the crew of Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Novitsky and Peter Dubrov, NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei, who arrived on April 9, 2021 on the Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft, as well as crew members of the Crew Dragon spacecraft NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan MacArthur, ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Akihiko Hoshide.
Related article:
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/32689/
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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