The height of the orbit of the International Space Station was adjusted as part of the preparation for the arrival of the transport piloted ship “Union MS-19” and the return of the Soyuz MS-18 ship. According to preliminary data, after the corrective maneuver, the height of the station orbits decreased by 1.2 km.
On Friday, September 24, 2021, at 17:38 Moscow time a team was issued and engines of the service module “Star” of the Russian segment of the ISS were included. Two corrective engines in normal mode were worked out 47.5 seconds, and the pulse value was 0.65 m / s. Currently, specialists of the service of ballistic-navigation support of the Center for Flight Management TsNIIMASH (included in the state corporation “Roskosmos”) study telemetry information.
At the moment, seven crew members are on board the international space station: Oleg Novitsky astronauts and Peter Dubrov, NASA Astronauts Mark Wanda Hai, Shane Kimbrow and Megan Makurtur, Astronaut of the European Space Agency Space Agency, as well as Akikhidoe Akikhiko astronaut. A cosmonaut of Roscosmos Anton Slipples, as well as participants in the space flight – Actress Julia Peresildo and Director Klim Shipenko, should fly on the ship “Union MS-19”.
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. 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.