On Dec. 29, SpaceX’s Dragon fired its thrusters for greater than 19 minutes, boosting the Worldwide House Station’s orbit.
The 2 Draco engines, that are positioned within the spacecraft’s trunk and use an impartial propellant system, elevated the station’s altitude by 1.6 miles at apogee, or highest level of station’s orbit, and 1.9 miles at perigee, or low level of station’s orbit, putting the station in an orbit of 263.5 x 257.8 miles.
This Dragon spacecraft, which is supporting SpaceX’s thirty third industrial resupply mission for NASA, arrived on the orbital advanced on Aug. 25 and beforehand carried out 4 reboosts of the station on Sept. 3, Sept. 26, and Oct. 14, and Nov. 7. One further reboost is deliberate in mid-January earlier than Dragon returns to Earth with essential analysis and cargo and splashes down off the coast of California.
Be taught extra about station actions by following the area station weblog, @space_station on X, in addition to the ISS Facebook and ISS Instagram accounts.
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