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Jan 18, 2023
On Wednesday, January 18, 2023, the orbit of the International Space Station was adjusted to ensure the launch of the Soyuz MS-23 unmanned spacecraft and the landing of the Soyuz MS-22 unmanned spacecraft.
The engines of the Progress MS-20 cargo spacecraft docked to the Zvezda service module of the ISS Russian Segment were turned on at 17:57 Moscow time. They worked for 591.4 seconds and gave out an impulse of 0.95 m/s.
According to preliminary data, after the maneuver, the average height of the station's orbit increased by 1.6 km and amounted to 417.13 km.
ISS reboost by Progress cargo spacecraft
For the entire duration of the ISS flight, 331 corrections of the altitude of its orbit were carried out, including 180 with the help of the engines of the Progress spacecraft.
The launch of the Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft by the Soyuz-2.1a carrier rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in unmanned mode is scheduled for February 20, 2023. Landing of the Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft in unmanned mode is planned for March 2023 southeast of the Kazakh city of Zhezkazgan.
Currently, the crew of the 68th long-term expedition is working on board the ISS, consisting of cosmonauts of the State Corporation Roscosmos Sergey Prokopiev, Dmitry Petelin and Anna Kikina, NASA astronauts Frank Rubio, Nicole Mann and Josh Cassada, as well as JAXA astronaut Koichi Wakata.
Related links:
ROSCOSMOS Press Release: https://www.roscosmos.ru/38705/
Soyuz MS-22: https://www.roscosmos.ru/tag/sojuz-ms-22/
Soyuz MS-23: https://www.roscosmos.ru/tag/sojuz-ms-23/
International Space station (ISS): https://www.roscosmos.ru/tag/mks/
Image, Text, Credits: ROSCOSMOS/NASA/Orbiter.ch Aerospace/Roland Berga.
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