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Space station’s orbit lowered before launch of Soyuz manned spacecraft – TASS

A Soyuz-2.1a carrier rocket with the Soyuz MS-17 manned spacecraft is scheduled to blast off from Site No. 31 of the Baikonur spaceport on October 14 to deliver…

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MOSCOW, October 7. /TASS/. Specialists of Russia’s TsNIIMash Mission Control Center carried out a maneuver to lower the average orbital altitude of the International Space Station (ISS), using the thrusters of the Progress MS-14 resupply ship, the State Space Corporation Roscosmos reported on Wednesday.”In compliance with the flight program of the International Space Station, Roscosmos Corporation specialists carried out planned adjustment of the ISS orbit on October 7, 2020,” the statement says…

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