Space station increased to receive Soyuz train

Europe's unmanned aerial transport vehicle ATV-3 on August 22 pushed the International Space Station (ISS) to a new orbit 420km from Earth, RIA Novosti quoted a porcelain control center spokesman. destiny Russia said.

The ATV-3 propulsion engines, Edoardo Amaldi, are now connected to the ISS Zvezda module, which started at 1615 on August 22 (VN time) to push ISS to a height of 414, 8km in 384 seconds.

After that, ATV-3 continued running the propulsion engine at 20: 17 minutes on August 22 (VN time) for nearly 35 minutes to put ISS into orbit with an average altitude of 420.6km.

Deliver ship Edoardo Amaldi of Europe - (Photo: NASA)

It is known that ATV-3 is the third automatic transport ship of the European Space Agency (ESA) named after 20th-century Italian physicist Edoardo Amaldi, bringing 6.6 tons of cargo including fuel , drinking water, oxygen, food . to provide for ISS.

The ship arrived to assemble with the port of the Zvezda logistics module on March 29, 2012, after being launched into space by Ariane 5 rocket from Kourou Space Airport in French Guiana on March 23, 2012.

Before the ship Edoardo Amaldi, two other transport ships were also launched by ISA, the ATV-1, Jules Verne, launched on March 9, 2008, and the ATV-2, Johannes Kepler, was launched. February 16, 2011.

In addition to the mission of supplying cargo to the space station and taking away waste, the European ATV fleet also performs another important task to help push the station to a higher orbit by means of the ship.

Raising the orbit for ISS was carried out regularly to help this $ 100 billion space station compensate for the loss of altitude due to the gravity of the earth, as well as to facilitate ISS to connect with ships. Space.

Accordingly, this ISS elevation mission aims to help the Russian Soyuz TMA-04M spacecraft carry three ISS loose astronauts, and ensure the successful connection of Soyuz TMA-06M.

There are six astronauts working on ISS - (Photo: Reuters)

According to the US Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA), Soyuz TMA-04M carrying three astronauts, Gennady Padalka, Sergei Revin (Russia) and Joe Acaba (USA) will leave the port on ISS as tissue. Poisk module on September 17.

Meanwhile, Soyuz TMA-06M carrying three astronauts, Kevin Ford (USA), Russia's Oleg Novitskiy and Evgeny Tarelkin, will leave the launch pad at Russia's Baikonur Space Airport in Kazakhstan on 15/15 10 coming.

The ISS currently has an ISS 32 international fleet with six astronauts working. In addition to the three Soyuz TMA-04M astronauts, three were brought to the Rassvet module of the station on July 17 by Soyuz TMA-05M, Sunita Williams (USA), Akihiko Hoshide (Japan), Yury Malenchenko (Russia). Soyuz TMA-05M is expected to return on November 12.