MOSCOW. July 3 (Interfax) - The mission control center carried out an unscheduled orbital maneuver on the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday to avoid a collision with space debris, the Roscosmos state corporation stated.
"The mission control center, of TsNIImash (part of Roscosmos), conducted an unscheduled orbital correction of the ISS at 6:53 p.m. Moscow time on July 3, 2020, to avoid a possible collision with space debris. All operations passed normally, fully in accordance with the calculations of the Russian ballistic service specialists," the statement reads.
The maneuver was performed by firing the engines of the Progress MS-14 cargo spaceship docked to the Zvezda Module of the ISS Russian segment. The engines ran for 100 seconds, boosting the station's speed by 0.5 meters per second.
As a result, the ISS orbit was raised by 900 meters above the Earth.