When Belarusian cosmonauts were scheduled to arrive at the station on the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft, the ISS orbit was raised by 3 km due to the spring shift change of the Soyuz spacecraft. This was reported by TASS Referring to Roscosmos.
“Today, the orbit of the International Space Station has been adjusted to accommodate the launch of the Soyuz MS-25 manned spacecraft and the landing of Soyuz MS-24, scheduled for spring 2024,” Roscosmos said. said.
The orbital altitude of the International Space Station increased by 3.04 km, reaching 418.72 km. Belarusian female cosmonaut Marina Vasilevskaya will be in the crew of the Soyuz MS-25 manned spacecraft. She works as a flight attendant at Belavia Airlines in the world.
Her replacement will be Anastasia Lenkova, a surgeon at the Republican Scientific and Practical Center of Pediatric Surgery.
Vasily Sazonov, formerly Dean of the Faculty of Space Research at Moscow State University statedIn 2025, the university will send a greenhouse to the ISS.
Astrophysicists have previously found stellar “factories” for gold production in space.