mercredi 27 août 2014

International Space Station reboost












ISS - International Space Station patch.

08/27/2014

August 27 at 12:37 MSK was the correction of the orbit of the International Space Station.

Orbit correction took place in the normal mode. According to the telemetry duration of propulsion cargo vehicle ATV-5 was 178.68 seconds. As a result, ISS has received the increment speed of 0.43 m / sec., Orbit height increased by 1 km.

ISS Reboost by ATV

Video above: NASA astronaut Don Pettit, Expedition 30 flight engineer, captured this video of engines of the Automated Transfer Vehicle being fired to reboost the International Space Station.

Correction was performed to create the conditions for landing in a predetermined area of the vehicle crew manned spacecraft "Soyuz TMA-12M" as part of the Russian Space Agency cosmonauts Alexander Skvortsov, Oleg Artemyev and NASA astronaut Steven Swanson. The crew will return to Earth September 11, 2014.

ROSCOSMOS Press Release: http://www.federalspace.ru/20874/

Video, Text, Credits: Roscosmos press service / NASA / Translation: Orbiter.ch Aerospace.

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