ISS orbit raised by 2.3 km before the launch of the Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft

The altitude of the International Space Station (ISS) orbit was adjusted by 2.3 km to form ballistic conditions before landing of the descent vehicle of the Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft and launching of the Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft into orbit. This was reported on December 22 in the state corporation "Roscosmos".

"Today at 04:10 Moscow time the engines of Progress MS-28 turned on, worked for 811.3 s, producing an impulse of 1.3 m/s. As a result, the average height of the station's orbit increased by 2.3 km and amounted to 416.43 km above the Earth's surface", - specified in the message of the state corporation in Telegram-channel.

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Earlier, December 20, it was reported that Russian cosmonauts Alexei Ovchinin and Ivan Wagner closed the exit hatch of the small research module "Search" on the ISS after work in outer space. The cosmonauts mounted and connected the SPIN-X1-MVN X-ray spectrometer and dismantled two exposure devices and two panels. The spacewalk lasted 7 hours 17 minutes and 47 seconds. Ovchinin and Wagner 's spacewalk began at 18:36 on December 19. It was planned to last 6 hours and 43 minutes.