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International Space Station Orbit To Be Corrected
Moscow (SPX) Nov 10, 2005 Russia's Mission Control Center said Wednesday it planned to correct the International Space Station's orbit, raising it eight kilometers (5 miles), reports RIA Novosti. An expert with mission control said the corrective maneuvers would be conducted Thursday in two stages by sending two successive impulses to switch on the engines of the Progress M-54 cargo vehicle, which is docked with the ISS, at 11:23 a.m. and 12:42 p.m. GMT. At present, the ISS's average orbit height is 345 kilometers (215 miles). The expert said that mission control conducts regular orbit corrections to prepare the station to dock with space vehicles. A previous attempt to correct the ISS' orbit on October 19 failed due to an emergency situation caused by a system engine shutoff of the Progress M-54. The next cargo vehicle, the Progress M-55, is set to be launched from the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan December 8. Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Related Links SpaceDaily Search SpaceDaily Subscribe To SpaceDaily Express Space Station News at Space-Travel.Com
NASA Had No Choice But To Buy Soyuz Flights
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 09, 2006NASA's announcement last week that it will pay Roskosmos $43.6 million for a round-trip ride to the International Space Station this spring, and an equivalent figure for an as-yet-undetermined number of future flights to the station until 2012, represents the agency's acknowledgment that it had no alternative. |
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