Friday, October 12, 2012

The height of the orbit of the ICS will establish a kilometer

Flight Management Centre has planned for 17 October the development of the International Space Station orbit correction (SKN), announced the Russian Centre Management Flight.

Data backup set 19 October. SKN orbit height is planned to rise by about a kilometer. The average height while the station's orbit will reach about 415 kilometers.

For orbit correction will be used motors service module "Zvezda". They will work 35 seconds and will give an impulse of 0.55 meters per second.