{"id":239610,"date":"2016-02-22T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=ec11f8ef23591ffb9497c1368b7c305e"},"modified":"2016-02-22T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-22T23:00:00","slug":"iss-reboost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=239610","title":{"rendered":"ISS reboost"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nEver wondered what happens inside the International Space Station during a reboost? ESA astronaut Tim Peake filmed inside during last week’s firing of the Progress thrusters.\n<\/p>\n

\nEven at 400 km, there are still enough molecules of the atmosphere to create some ‘atmospheric drag’, which causes the Station to drop by about 2 km a month. Because of this we need to raise the Station’s orbit every so often. On 17 February the engines of the Progress M-29M spacecraft that is docked to aft port the Zvezda module were fired for 11 minutes.\n<\/p>\n

The burn primarily focused on raising the Station\u2019s perigee, making the orbit more circular.
\nPre-reboost:  398.2 x 407.4 km – inclination 51.64\u00b0 – Period: 92.62min
Post-reboost: 402.1 x 406.9 km – inclination 51.64\u00b0 – Period: 92.66min\n<\/p>\n

\nMore about the Principia mission: http:\/\/www.esa.int\/principia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

<\/p>\n

\nEver wondered what happens inside the International Space Station during a reboost? ESA astronaut Tim Peake filmed inside during last week’s firing of the Progress thrusters.\n<\/p>\n

\nEven at 400 km, there are still enough molecules of the atmosphere to create some ‘atmospheric drag’, which causes the Station to drop by about 2 km a month. Because of this we need to raise the Station’s orbit every so often. On 17 February the engines of the Progress M-29M spacecraft that is docked to aft port the Zvezda module were fired for 11 minutes.\n<\/p>\n

The burn primarily focused on raising the Station’s perigee, making the orbit more circular.
\nPre-reboost:  398.2 x 407.4 km – inclination 51.64° – Period: 92.62min
Post-reboost: 402.1 x 406.9 km – inclination 51.64° – Period: 92.66min\n<\/p>\n

\nMore about the Principia mission: http:\/\/www.esa.int\/principia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=239610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239611,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239610\/revisions\/239611"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=239610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=239610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=239610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}