MOSCOW. Sept 2 (Interfax) - The orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) will be adjusted on September 10 before the arrival of the next crew in October, the Roscosmos press service said on Tuesday.
"For the purpose of creating the proper ballistic conditions before the launch of the Soyuz MS-17 manned spaceship, another adjustment of the International Space Station's orbit is planned for September 10, 2020," the press service said.
The orbit will be adjusted using burns from the engines of the Progress MS-14 resupply ship latched onto the station. The engines will be started at 11:32 p.m. Moscow Time and will run for 225.1 seconds, as a result of which, the station will be lifted 800 meters up to about 419.6 kilometers above the Earth.
The launch of a Soyuz-2.1a rocket carrying the Soyuz MS-17 crewed spaceship is scheduled for October from Launch Site 31 of the Baikonur Cosmodrome. The Soyuz MS-17 will be crewed by Sergei Ryzhikov and Sergei Kud-Svechkov of Roscosmos, and NASA's Kathleen Rubins.
The current ISS crew is made up of Russian cosmonauts Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner, and U.S. astronaut Chris Cassidy.