jeudi 18 mai 2023

ISS Orbit Prepared for Progress MS-23 Cargo Spacecraft Launch

 






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May 18, 2023

The engines of the Progress MS-22 spacecraft, docked to the Russian service module Zvezda, were turned on at 19:43 Moscow time and worked for 353.1 seconds, generating an impulse of 0.55 m/s.

As a result, according to preliminary data, the average altitude of the station's orbit increased by 1 km and amounted to 416.6 km.

ISS reboost by Progress Cargo Spacecraft. Image Credit: NASA

For the entire duration of the ISS flight, 339 corrections of its orbital altitude were carried out, including 187 with the help of Progress spacecraft engines.

The launch of the Progress MS-23 spacecraft by the Soyuz-2.1a launch vehicle from the Baikonur Cosmodrome is scheduled for May 24, 2023.

The crew of the 69th long-term expedition is working on board the ISS, consisting of cosmonauts of the State Corporation Roscosmos Sergey Prokopiev, Dmitry Petelin, Andrey Fedyaev, NASA astronauts Franck Rubio, Stephen Bowen, Woody Hoburg, UAE astronaut Sultan al-Neyadi.

Related links:

ROSCOSMOS Press Release: https://www.roscosmos.ru/39240/

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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