MOSCOW, January 12. /TASS/. The orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) has been adjusted before the reshuffle of the crewed Soyuz spacecraft due in the spring, Roscosmos has said.

"Today the orbit of the International Space Station has been adjusted for the reshuffle of crewed Soyuz spacecraft scheduled for the spring of 2024," the corporation said in a news release.

The average height of the station's orbit increased by 2.9 kilometers to 418.53 kilometers above the Earth's surface. The engines of the Progress MS-24 cargo ship were burned for 1,053.7 seconds at 7:30 p.m. Moscow time (4:30 p.m. GMT) to perform the maneuver.

The ISS now has a crew of seven: Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko (TASS special correspondent on the ISS), Nikolay Chub and Konstantin Borisov, NASA astronauts Jasmine Mogbeli and Loral O'Hara, Danish astronaut Andreas Mogensen (representing the ESA) and JAXA’s astronaut Satoshi Furukawa.