NASA-Roscosmos Tiff – Russia Says Looking Into Consequences Of US Spacecraft’s Failure To Adjust ISS Orbit - EurAsian Times

Russia’s space agency is looking into the situation that arose due to the failure of the US freight spaceship Cygnus NG-17 to adjust the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) as NASA is unsure about what had caused the boost maneuver to fail, Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin said on Tuesday.

The ISS reboost was originally scheduled for Saturday but was delayed after the Russian cargo spacecraft Progress MS-18, docked to the orbiting laboratory, conducted a 4.5-minute reboost on Thursday to ensure that the space station avoided a piece of debris.

Meanwhile, earlier in June, US space tourism company Axiom Space paid Russian space agency Roscosmos for the flight of American astronaut Mark Vande Hei to the International Space Station (ISS) after a one-month delay, Roscosmos chief Dmitry Rogozin said Saturday.

Rogozin noted that NASA had faced pressure from the US Congress over Vande Hei’s flight, so it chose Axiom Space, a private company, as its intermediary to book a seat on a Russian spacecraft.