ISS orbit successfully corrected

The orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) has been successfully raised by about 5 km on Sunday, said the Mission Control Center outside Moscow. The operation has thus created conditions for the dockings between the ISS and Russian cargo spaceships as well as U.S. space shuttles, news agencies reported. The space maneuver was carried out in automatic mode at around 12:02 Moscow time (0902 GMT) and lasted about 150 seconds, said the Mission Control, when two thrusters of the Zvezda service module were initiated to raise the space station's orbit. More

(Source: Xinhua - Jan 25)