On February 6, the Russian state corporation Roscosmos will correct the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) at the request of specialists from the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), says on the company’s website.
“At the request of the Americans, to ensure the conditions for their experiments, we will move to another orbit. Now we will fly not in an orbit of 419 km, but 3 km less – 416 km, ”said Rafail Murtazin, head of the ballistics department of RSC Energia (part of Roscosmos).
Russia will maintain this height for several years, possibly until the end of the operation of the station and its flooding into the ocean, he added.
The orbital height will be corrected using the engines of the Zvezda Service Module of the ISS Russian Segment or using Progress MS cargo ships docked to it.