Roscosmos said that the purpose of the maneuver is to form ballistic conditions before launching the Soyuz MS-21 manned spacecraft into orbit (March 18) and landing Soyuz MS-19 (March 30).
MOSCOW, February 2. /tass/. Correction of the orbit height of the International Space Station (ISS) is expected on February 6. This is stated in the message of Roscosmos, distributed on Wednesday.
"The planned correction of the orbit height of the International Space Station is scheduled for February 6, 2022," the message says.
Roscosmos clarified that the purpose of the maneuver is to form ballistic conditions before launching the Soyuz MS-21 manned spacecraft into orbit (March 18) and landing Soyuz MS-19 (March 30).
"According to preliminary data from the ballistic and navigation support service of the TsNIIMash Mission Control Center (part of the Roscosmos State Corporation), at 12:30 Moscow time, it is planned to issue a command to turn on the engines of the Progress MS-18 cargo ship docked to the Zvezda service module of the Russian segment of the ISS. It is expected that they will work for 109.4 seconds and give an impulse of 0.2 m/s," the message says.
As a result, the height of the orbit will increase by 400 m.
Currently on board the ISS are Roscosmos cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Peter Dubrov, NASA astronauts Mark Vande Hai, Raja Chari, Tom Marshburn and Kayla Barron, European Space Agency astronaut Matthias Maurer.
