MOSCOW, November 10. /TASS/. The orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) has been adjusted by 2.5 km to create ballistic conditions ahead of the launch of the Progress MS-25 cargo spacecraft, Roscosmos has said.

"Before the arrival of the new Progress MS-25 cargo spacecraft, the orbit of the International Space Station needs to be adjusted," the state space corporation said in a statement.

According to preliminary data, the average height of the station's orbit increased by 2.5 kilometers to 417.98 kilometers above the Earth's surface. The maneuver was performed with the engines of the Progress MS-24 cargo spacecraft. They were turned on at 00:11 p.m. Moscow time (09:11 p.m. GMT) and burned for 905.7 seconds.

Currently the ISS has a crew of seven: Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko (TASS special correspondent on the ISS), Nikolay Chub and Konstantin Borisov, NASA astronauts Jasmine Moghbeli and Loral O'Hara, ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen from Denmark, and JAXA astronaut Satoshi Furukawa.