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March 14, 2023
Today, the orbit of the International Space Station was adjusted for the second time in a month using the engines of the Progress MS-22 cargo spacecraft to avoid a possible collision with space debris.
The engines of the ship docked to the Russian service module Zvezda were turned on at 14:54 Moscow time. They worked for 155 seconds and gave an impulse of 0.3 m/s.
ISS reboost by Progress cargo spacecraft. Image Credit: NASA
As a result, according to preliminary data, the average altitude of the ISS orbit increased by 500 m and amounted to 419 km.
For the entire time of the station's flight, 336 corrections were made to the height of its orbit (of which 34 were aimed at avoiding space debris), including 185 with the help of the Progress cargo spacecraft engines.
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 Andrey Fedyaev, NASA astronauts Frank Rubio, Stephen Bowen and Woody Hoburg and UAE astronaut Sultan al-Neyadi.
Related article:
The Progress spacecraft took the ISS away from space debris
https://orbiterchspacenews.blogspot.com/2023/03/the-progress-spacecraft-took-iss-away.html
Related links:
ROSCOSMOS Press Release: https://www.roscosmos.ru/39039/
Progress MS-22: https://www.roscosmos.ru/tag/progress-ms-22/
International Space Station (ISS): https://www.roscosmos.ru/tag/mks/
Image (mentioned), Text, Credits: ROSCOSMOS/Orbiter.ch Aerospace/Roland Berga.
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