"The scheduled orbital correction of the ISS will begin at 17:12, Moscow time, on November 17. The engines of the space truck Progress docked to the ISS will, during 548 seconds, put it 4.4 kilometres higher up", said the MCC spokesman.
Under the impact of a very strong magnetic storm, the ISS station was going down by 300 metres daily throughout last week. "There's nothing supernatural and less so catastrophic in it: the ISS altitude is adjusted systematically", the MCC spokesman stressed.
To him, the usual daily sag of the ISS under the impact of terrestrial gravity is from 150 to 200 metres a day. "The magnetic storm is now past and the station is loosing its altitude at a usual rate", he said.
Currently, the ISS station houses a binational crew of Leroy Chiao of the United States and Salizhan Sharipov of the Russian Federation.
