MOSCOW, (PNA/Itar-Tass) — The European cargo freighter ATV-4 (Albert Einstein) has lifted the International Space Station (ISS) successfully creating its working orbit, the Russian space agency Roscosmos told Itar-Tass on Wednesday.
The engines of the cargo freighter were activated at 23:22 Moscow time (19:22 GMT) and have been running for 815 seconds,” Roscosmos said.
The maneuvers to adjust the ISS orbit are usually made to put the station on the required orbit for the docking with a cargo or piloted spacecraft and provide conditions for a successful landing as well as deviation from the space garbage. The ISS orbit’s altitude goes down by 150-200 kilometres daily under the impact of the force of gravity and other factors.