MOSCOW. Aug 7 (Interfax) - Russia's Progress MS-22 resupply ship performed a maneuver yesterday, enabling the International Space Station (ISS) to avoid a potential collision with space debris, Roscosmos said on Sunday.
"Data from the Mission Control Center of the Central Research Institute of Machine Building [part of Roscosmos] indicate that the cargo carrier, docked to the Zvezda service module of the Russian segment aboard the ISS, fired its thrusters at 5:03 a.m. Moscow time for 196 seconds, giving a 0.3 m/s impulse," the Roscosmos press service said.
The maneuver raised the average altitude of the station's orbit by 0.5 km to 416.4 km, it said.
Russian cosmonauts Sergei Prokopyev, Dmitry Petelin and Andrei Fedyayev, NASA astronauts Francisco Rubio, Stephen Bowen and Woody Hoburg, and United Arab Emirates astronaut Sultan al-Neyadi operate the station at present.