vendredi 17 mai 2013

Completed the planned correction of the orbit of the International Space Station












ISS - International Space Station patch.

17.05.2013

May 17 in accordance with the schedule of the International Space Station (ISS) performed surgery for the correction of its orbit.

At 6:00. 21 min. Moscow time included motors transport cargo vehicle (THC) "Progress M-19M", docked to the service module of the Service Module (SM) Zvezda of the Russian segment of the station. The duration of the propulsion system was 922.4 sec. As a result, ISS has gained momentum at 1.6 m / s, and the average height of its orbit increased by 2.8 km and reached 415.7 km.

International Space Station (ISS)

After making corrections, the following orbital station:

      Minimum height above the surface of the Earth - 411.5 km;
      Maximum height above the surface of the Earth - 430.3 km;
      Period - 92.827 minutes;
      The inclination - 51.669 degrees.

The purpose of correction - the formation of the working of the ISS to provide conditions for the docking of manned spacecraft (WPK) Soyuz TMA-09M, to be launched on 29 May 2013.

Press release from Roscosmos: http://www.federalspace.ru/main.php?id=2&nid=20096

Image, Text, Credits: Press Service of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos PAO) / NASA / Translation: Orbiter.ch Aerospace.

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