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Feb 3, 2022
The planned correction of the height of the orbit of the International Space Station is planned on February 6, 2022 in order to form ballistic conditions before the launch of the manned spacecraft Soyuz MS-21 into orbit (March 18) and the landing of the Soyuz MS-19 descent vehicle (March 30).
International Space Station (ISS)
According to preliminary data from the ballistics and navigation support service of the TsNIIMash Mission Control Center (part of the Roscosmos State Corporation), at 12:30 Moscow time it is planned to issue a command to turn on the engines of the Progress MS-18 cargo ship docked to the Zvezda service module » Russian Segment of the ISS. They are expected to last 109.4 seconds and deliver an impulse of 0.2 m/s. It is planned that after the corrective maneuver, the average altitude of the station's orbit will increase by 400 meters - up to an altitude of 417.6 km.
The parameters of the ISS orbit after the corrective maneuver should be:
- Orbital period: 92.86 min;
- Orbital inclination: 51.66 degrees;
- Minimum orbit height: 415.67 km;
- Maximum orbit height: 439.62 km.
For the entire duration of the ISS flight, 314 corrections of its orbital height were made, including 165 with the help of the Progress cargo spacecraft engines.
Currently, a crew of Roscosmos cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov (station commander) and Petr Dubrov, as well as NASA astronauts Mark Vande Hei, Raja Chari, Thomas Marshburn, Kayla Barron and European Space Agency astronaut Matthias Maurer are working on board the ISS.
Related links:
ROSCOSMOS Press Release: https://www.roscosmos.ru/33998/
TsNIIMash: https://www.roscosmos.ru/tag/cniimash/
MCC: https://www.roscosmos.ru/tag/cup/
Soyuz MS-19: https://www.roscosmos.ru/tag/sojuz-ms-19/
Soyuz MS-21: https://www.roscosmos.ru/tag/sojuz-ms-21/
International Space Station (ISS): https://www.roscosmos.ru/tag/mks/
Image, Text, Credits: ROSCOSMOS/MCC/Orbiter.ch Aerospace/Roland Berga.
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