In order to form ballistic conditions before the start of the transport piloted ship Soyuz MS-19 and the landing of the Soyuz MS-18, on June 24, 2021, the next correction of the height of the orbit of the International Space Station was planned.
According to preliminary data of the service of ballistic-navigation provision of the Center for Flight Management TsNIIMASH (part of the state corporation “Roskosmos”), at 05:25 Moscow time will be issued a team on the inclusion of engines of the Transport Cargo Ship “Progress MS-16” engines Module “Pier” of the Russian segment. The impulse will be 0.5 m / s. Currently, experts calculate the parameters of changing the height of the station.
On board the International Space Station, the crew of the ISS-65 expedition as part of the astronauts of Roscosmos Oleg Novitsky and Peter Dubrova, and NASA Astronaut Marka Wanda Haya arrived on April 9, 2021 on the Soyuz MS-18 ship, as well as crew members Crew Dragon Ship Astronauts NASA Shane Kimbrou and Megan Macacur, Astronaut of the European Space Agency Tom Sands and Astronaut of the Japanese Agency Aerospace Research Akihiko Hoshide.