The height of the orbit of the International Space Station on June 24, 2021, it is planned to increase by 890 meters with the help of MS-16 Transport Cargo Ship engines.
According to preliminary data of the service of ballistic-navigation provision of the Center for Flight Management TsNIIMASH (part of Roskosmos State Corporation), at 05:25 Moscow time a team will be issued and engines of the MS-16 Progress Ship engines that will work 466 seconds . The magnitude of the pulse is 0.5 m / s. The average height of the station orbits will be about 420.26 km above the ground.
Parameters of the ISS orbit after the adjusting maneuver:
- Couch period: 92.92 min;
- orbit: 51.66 degrees;
- Minimum orbit height: 419,27 km;
- Maximum Orbit Height: 439.32 km.
The planned correction of the orbit is carried out in order to form ballistic conditions before the start of the American ship CST-100 Starliner (Boe-OFT 2), the transport piloted ship “Union MS-19” and planting the descent “Union MS-18”.
At the moment at the International Space Station, the crew is operating as part of the astronauts of Roscosmos Oleg Novitsky, Peter Dubrov and NASA Astronaut Mark Vanda Haya, arriving on April 9, 2021 on the Soyuz MS-18 ship, as well as crew members of the Crew Dragon crew Astronauts NASA Shane Kimbrow and Megan Macarur, Astronaut of the European Space Space Space Agency and Astronaut of the Japanese Aerospace Research Akikhiko Hoshide Research.