 |  ISS Orbit Boosted
 25 November 2010
In accordance with the International Space Station mission ballistics support programme, ISS reboost took place. The manoeuvre was assisted by 8 attitude thrusters of the Progress M-07M cargo vehicle attached to the Zvezda instrumentation compartment. As a result of the manoeuvre which lasted 351.6 sec, the station obtained the burn of 1 mps. The altitude of the station became 1.7 km higher, and achieved 351.6 km. The operation was aimed at providing favorable conditions for further docking to the station of Russian Soyuz TMA-20 to be launched on December 15.
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