MOSCOW. June 16 (Interfax) - The orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) has been raised by 2.1 kilometers before the launch of the Soyuz MS-24 piloted spaceship and landing of Soyuz MS-23, Russia's Roscosmos said on Friday.
"The Progress MS-22 spaceship's engines, latched on to the Russian Zvezda service module, were started at 9:27 a.m. Moscow time and ran for 770.2 seconds, thus giving an impetus of 1.2 meters per second," Roscosmos said.
According to the preliminary information, the ISS orbit's average altitude grew by 2.1 km to 416.4 km.
Soyuz MS-24, operated by Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub and NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara, is due to take off on September 15, 2023.
The landing of Soyuz MS-23 with Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergei Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin and NASA astronaut Francisco Rubio onboard is scheduled for September 27, 2023.