The Russian space agency "Roscosmos" announced today, Friday, that the International Space Station underwent an orbital adjustment. A statement from the agency said: "The orbit of the International Space Station was adjusted to maintain its height strategy. The station must be kept in a specific orbit through maneuvers to adjust its position, and this time the engines of the Progress MS-26 spacecraft and the engines of the Russian Zvezda module were used to perform the maneuver and adjust the orbit."
The statement added: "The engines of the Progress MS-26 spacecraft began operating on Friday at 05:35 Moscow time, and the engines worked for 403.2 seconds. As a result, the station's orbit increased by one kilometer, now positioning it 414.8 kilometers above the Earth's surface." Currently, onboard the International Space Station are Russian astronauts Oleg Kononenko, Nikolai Chub, Alexander Gerbinenko, and NASA astronauts Michael Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Janet Epps, and Tracy Dyson.
