The ISS orbit was adjusted before the Soyuz shift change

MOSCOW, December 23The Russian Progress MS-24 cargo ship has adjusted the ISS orbit to accommodate the Soyuz manned spacecraft changeover scheduled for spring 2024, according to the Roscosmos website.
“Today, the orbit of the International Space Station was adjusted to accommodate the changeover of manned Soyuz spacecraft, scheduled for the spring of 2024. The engines of the Progress MS-24 cargo ship, docked to the Zvezda service module of the Russian segment of the ISS, turned on at 4.55 Moscow time and , according to preliminary data from the Flight Control Center of the Central Scientific Research Institute of Mechanical Engineering (part of the Roscosmos state corporation), worked for 1131.85 seconds, producing an impulse of 1.84 meters per second,” the message says.
It is noted that the average altitude of the station’s orbit increased by 3.2 kilometers and amounted to 417.7 kilometers. In addition, during the entire flight of the ISS, 351 corrections to the altitude of its orbit were carried out, including 197 using the engines of the Progress spacecraft.

“In the spring of 2024, the launch of the Soyuz MS-25 manned spacecraft from the Baikonur cosmodrome by the Soyuz-2.1a launch vehicle and the landing of the Soyuz MS-24 in Kazakhstan are planned. The main crew of the Soyuz MS-25 includes a Roscosmos cosmonaut «Oleg Novitsky, space flight participant from the Republic of Belarus Marina Vasilevskaya and NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson. On the Soyuz MS-24, together with Oleg Novitsky and Marina Vasilevskaya, NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara is expected to return to Earth,» the message says.

On board the ISS is the crew of the 70th long-term expedition consisting of Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko, Nikolai Chub and Konstantin Borisov, NASA astronauts Jasmine Moghbeli and Loral O'Hara, ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen and JAXA astronaut Satoshi Furukawa.