In accordance with the Flight Program of the International Space Station on April 2, 2021, specialists from the Center for Flight Management TsNIIMASH (part of the state corporation “Roscosmos”) will hold the height of its orbit. For this, the engines of the Transport Cargo Ship “Progress MS-14” docouked to the “Star” service module will automatically be included at 15:14 Moscow time.
The magnitude of the pulse will be 0.21 m / s. Ship engines will work in 129.3 s., As a result, the average height of the station orbits will increase by 0.36 km and will be 419.8 km. According to preliminary information of the service of ballistic-navigation provision of the TsUPIIMASH, the parameters of the ISS orbit will be:
- Caption period: 92.91 min;
- Obligation of the orbit: 51.66 degrees;
- Minimum height above the ground surface: 418.17 km;
- Maximum height above the ground surface: 439.79 km.
This maneuver is performed for the formation of ballistic conditions before launching the piloted ship “Union MS-18” and the planting “Union MS-17”, which are scheduled in April 2021. On April 9, Roskosmos Oleg Novitsky, Peter Dubrov, and Astronaut NASA Mark Wanda Hai.