International Space Station’s Orbit Adjusted by 4 km

© NASAThe third Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV)blasted off from the Kourou space center in French Guiana on March 23
The third Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV)blasted off from the Kourou space center in French Guiana on March 23 - Sputnik International
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Europe’s ATV-3 unmanned resupply spacecraft, which docked with the ISS last week, readjusted the space station’s orbit once again

Europe’s ATV-3 unmanned resupply spacecraft, which docked with the ISS last week, readjusted the space station’s orbit once again, the Russian Mission Control said.

Two main engines of ATV-3 were switched on at 23:05 Moscow time on Thursday [19:05 GMT] to raise the International Space Station (ISS) orbit by 3.9 km, to 393.1 km.

Engines of Europe’s ATV-3 spacecraft remained switched on for 904.2 seconds, almost 15 minutes.

On April 1, the ATV-3 also raised the station’s orbit by 1.7 km.

The third Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV), named after Italian physicist Edoardo Amaldi, blasted off from the Kourou space center in French Guiana on March 23. The European spacecraft docked automatically to the aft port of the Zvezda service module on March 28.

 

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