Mission Control Center (MCC) has completed an operation to increase the average altitude of the flight of the International Space Station (ISS), told Novosti representative of the MCC.
"The two main engines of European cargo spacecraft ATV-3" Edoardo Amaldi ", docked to the station, were included in the 04.10 GMT. Under the program, they have worked 377.4 seconds (about six and a half minutes). As a result, the average height of the orbit maneuver the ISS increased by 1.5 kilometers and reached 399.3 kilometers "- the spokesman said.
He said the purpose of the operation was to create a working orbit station to provide the necessary conditions for landing manned spacecraft "Soyuz TMA-03M", scheduled for July 1, as well as the flight "Soyuz TMA-05M" with the crew of a new expedition to the International Space Station, scheduled for launch in July 15.
On the "Soyuz TMA-03M" to the Earth from the station to return to the cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, Space Agency, Astronaut of the European Space Agency (ESA) Andre Cowper and NASA astronaut Donald Pettit.
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