Elevate ISS orbit by 7.5 km

On the morning of July 24, the Russian Space Flight Control Center in the Moscow suburbs successfully adjusted the flight path of the International Space Station (ISS), raising the height of the station from 330 km to 337, 5 km from the Earth's surface.

This adjustment was carried out to prepare the US " Indevor " shuttle to ISS, scheduled for August 8.

Russian RIA - Novosti news agency on July 24 said that the adjustment of ISS flight trajectory was carried out automatically with the help of the engines of the " Progress M-60 " transport. The entire process took about 21 minutes and did not involve astronauts on the ISS.

According to the plan, during the 11-day flight of the 11-day " Indevor " shuttle to the ISS, astronauts will go out into space three times to perform the modernization of the ISS station. .

ISS orbit height has been raised by 7.5 km (Photo: src.le.ac.uk)

Earlier, on July 23, Fedor Yurchikhil (Russia) and Kleyton Anderson (USA), part of the 15th main fleet on ISS, worked 7 and a half hours in space outside the station to remove. The device contains ammonia, installed on ISS from August 2001, as a temporary cooling system of the station. The US space agency (NASA) said the device has not been used since the ISS main chiller was put into operation in December 2006.

In addition, in this aerospace visit, the two astronauts also performed a number of other tasks such as replacing the power supply unit for the operation of antennas and the remote control module of the above power supply system. station, installing brackets for cameras on the ISS on the side facing the Earth.