ISS orbit raised by 2.5 kilometers - Roscosmos

MOSCOW. Nov 10 (Interfax) - The International Space Station (ISS) orbit has been raised by 2.5 kilometers before the Progress MS-25 resupply ship's launch in December 2023, Roscosmos said on Friday.

"Engines of the Progress MS-24 resupply ship, docked to the ISS Russian segment's Zvezda service module, were started at 12:11 a.m. MSK and, according to the preliminary information from the Mission Control Center of the Central Research Institute for Machine Building, ran for 905.7 seconds, giving an impulse of 1.43 meters per second," Roscosmos said.

According to the preliminary information, the average altitude of the station's orbit increased by 2.5 km to 417.98 km.

The Progress MS-25 resupply ship carrying with a Soyuz-2.1a rocket is scheduled to launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on December 1, 2023.

Expedition 70 comprising Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko, Nikolai Chub and Konstantin Borisov, NASA astronauts Jasmin Moghbeli and Loral O'Hara, ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen and JAXA astronaut Satoshi Furukawa currently operates the ISS.