China launched the Tianzhou-6 spacecraft to the orbital station. informs China Central Television.
The launch was carried out at 21:22 Beijing time (16:22 Moscow time) using the Long March-7 (CZ-7) rocket. The ship will deliver the astronauts’ fuel, equipment, food and personal belongings to the station.
According to Roscosmos, the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) was changed to enable the launch of the previously Progress MS-23 cargo spacecraft.
According to the division, it was at 03.31 (Moscow time). including The engines of the Progress MS-22 cargo spacecraft docked at the Russian service module Zvezda. They worked for 716.8 seconds and gave an impulse of 1.12 m / s. As a result, the average altitude of the station’s orbit increased by 1.95 km to 417.12 km.
Roscosmos noted that during the entire flight of the ISS, 338 corrections were made in the altitude of its orbit, including 186 with the help of the engines of the Progress spacecraft.
The launch of the Progress MS-23 spacecraft with the Soyuz-2.1a carrier rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome is scheduled for May 24.