Using the Progress MS-18 cargo spacecraft, Roscosmos experts corrected the International Space Station’s (ISS) trajectory to prevent it from colliding with space debris. This has been reported press office Roscosmos
“For this maneuver, the engines of the cargo ship Progress MS-18, which worked for 623 seconds, were used and the thrust was 1.0 m/s. After the corrective maneuver, the altitude of the station’s orbit was increased by 1.8 km. <...> All operations were carried out in accordance with the calculations of the experts of the TsNIIMash Mission Control Center.”
It is stated that the Russian segment of the ISS makes an average of 11 ISS orbit corrections per year. Roscosmos said that during the entire existence of the ISS, 318 such maneuvers were carried out, 169 of which were performed using the engines of Progress cargo ships.
A few days ago, Russian cosmonauts Oleg Artemiev and Denis Matveev completed exit It was sent into space, lasting 6.37 hours. They have completed the first phase of preparing the European remote manipulator ERA for operation on the Russian segment of the ISS.
The next launch is scheduled for April 28 to prepare ERA for operation.
Source: Gazeta
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