Specialists of the Moscow mission control Center (MCC) on Wednesday, August 15, will maneuver orbit correction of the International space station (ISS), in which the orbit of the ISS will increase by 7.7 km and will be 414,4 kilometers, said in a statement on the website of Roskosmos.

The maneuver is scheduled using the engines of European cargo vehicle ATV-3 Edoardo Amaldi".

"According to preliminary data ballistic service MCC, engines (ATV-3) will be included in 20.00 GMT and will work 1876 seconds (just over 30 minutes). As a result, ISS will get an additional impetus 4.4 meters per second. The average height of its orbit will increase by 7.7 km and will be 414,42 kilometer" - said in the message.

The operation is performed in order to form the orbit of the ISS before descending to Earth manned spacecraft Soyuz TMA-04M" (scheduled for September 17) and the flight of the ship "Soyuz TMA-06M", which is scheduled for October 15.

On the ship "Soyuz TMA-04M" with the ISS to the Earth, should return astronauts Roscosmos Gennady Padalka and Sergei Revin, and NASA astronaut Joseph acaba.

In mid-October on the ship "Soyuz TMA-06M" to the station will go astronauts Roscosmos Oleg Novitskiy and Evgeny Tarelkin, and NASA astronaut Kevin Ford.