MOSCOW, November 13. /TASS/. The International Space Station orbit was corrected before the launch of the Progress MS-29 cargo spacecraft, Roscosmos reported.

"The ISS orbit was correct today ahead of the arrival of the Progress MS-29 cargo spacecraft," the state corporation said.

According to preliminary information, the ISS’s average orbit was increased by 4.9 km to 417.2 km above Earth. The maneuver was performed using the Progress MS-28 spacecraft engines. They were engaged at 19:47 (Moscow time) and worked for 1,894.4 seconds.

The current ISS crew includes Roscosmos cosmonauts Ivan Vagner (TASS special reporter at the ISS), Alexey Ovchinnik and Alexander Gorbunov, NASA astronauts Don Pettit and Nick Hague, as well as their colleagues Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams, who arrived at the station within the first Boeing Starliner manned mission.