China News Agency, Moscow, April 23 (Reporter Tian Bing) Roscosmos announced on the 23rd that the International Space Station used the power system of the Russian "Progress MS-18" spacecraft to adjust its orbital height on the same day to avoid and space. The possible collision of garbage.
The official website of Roscosmos said on the same day that at 16:25 Moscow time, experts from Roscosmos made an extraordinary correction to the orbital altitude of the space station to avoid space junk.
The power system of the "Progress MS-18" cargo spacecraft worked for 623 seconds, raising the orbital altitude of the space station by about 1.8 kilometers.
All operations are carried out in accordance with the calculations of the experts of the flight control center of the Central Institute of Mechanical Engineering Science, which belongs to the group.
Roscosmos said that the Russian module of the International Space Station adjusts the orbital altitude of the space station an average of 11 times a year.
In addition, maneuver corrections are required to avoid the space station being affected by space junk.
After the U.S. space shuttle and European ATV cargo spacecraft were grounded, the Russian spacecraft power system became the only conventional means to maintain the orbital altitude of the space station.
Since 1998, the International Space Station has made 318 orbital altitude adjustments, of which 169 were made with the help of the Russian "Progress" cargo spacecraft power system.
TASS reported that there are currently 11 passengers on the International Space Station, including three Russian astronauts, three American astronauts, one European Space Agency astronaut and four space tourists.
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