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March 8, 2023
Today, the orbit of the International Space Station has been adjusted to ensure the landing of the Soyuz MS-22 unmanned spacecraft.
The engines of the Progress MS-22 cargo ship docked to the Russian service module Zvezda were turned on at 22:47 Moscow time and worked for 318 seconds, generating an impulse of 0.6 m/s.
ISS reboost by Progress cargo spacecraft. Image Credit: NASA
As a result, according to preliminary data, the average altitude of the station's orbit increased by 1.1 km and amounted to 419.3 km.
During the entire flight time of the ISS, 335 corrections were made to its orbital altitude, including 184 with the help of Progress cargo spacecraft engines.
Landing of the Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft in unmanned mode is planned at the end of March 2023 southeast of the Kazakh city of Zhezkazgan.
ISS reboost
The crew of the 68th long-range expedition is working on board the ISS, consisting of cosmonauts of the State Corporation Roscosmos Sergey Prokopiev, Dmitry Petelin, Anna Kikina and Andrey Fedyaev, NASA astronauts Frank Rubio, Nicole Mann, Josh Cassada, Steven Bowen and Woody Hoburg, JAXA astronaut Koichi Wakata and UAE astronaut Sultan Al Neyadi.
Related links:
ROSCOSMOS Press Release: https://www.roscosmos.ru/39023/
Progress MS-22: https://www.roscosmos.ru/tag/progress-ms-22/
International Space Station (ISS): https://www.roscosmos.ru/tag/mks/
Image (mentioned), Video (ESA), Text, Credits: ROSCOSMOS/Orbiter.ch Aerospace/Roland Berga.
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