In order to form ballistic conditions before the launch of the transport piloted ship “Union of MS-19” and planting the descent vehicle “Union MS-18”, another correction of the height of the orbit of the International Space Station was carried out. According to preliminary data, after the maneuvers, the average height is now 420.91 km above the ground.
Today, August 21, 2021, at 07:04 Moscow time a team was issued and engines of the service module “Star” of the Russian segment of the ISS were included. Two adjusting motors in normal mode were worked out for 50 seconds, and the pulse value was 0.71 m / s. Currently, the specialists of the Ballistic-navigation provision of the Center for Flight Management TsNIIMASH (included in the Roskosmos State Corporation) process telemetry information, according to the results of which the exact parameters of the orbit of the International Space Station will be reported.
Maurevr was conducted by engines of the “Star” service module, and not the transport freight ship “Progress MS-17” in order to more efficient fuel use, since the cosmic “truck” is currently docked to the Small Research Module “Search” of the Russian ISS segment.
Start of the Soyuz-2.1a carrier missile with a transport piloted ship “Union MS-19” is scheduled for October 5, 2021 from the Baikonur cosmodrome. The main crew included the astronaut Roscosmos Anton Sluffers, as well as participants in the space flight – Actress Julia Peresilde and Director Klim Shipenko. It is expected that on October 17, Peresilde and Shipenko will return to Earth on the ship “Union MS-18” along with the astronaut Roscosmos Oleg Novitsky.
Now, on board the International Space Station, the crew is operating as part of the astronauts of Roscosmos Oleg Novitsky, Peter Dubrov and Astronaut NASA Mark Vanda Haya, arriving on April 9, 2021 on the ship “Union MS-18”, as well as members of the crew crew Crew Dragon – 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.