Specialists of Russia’s Flight Control Center carried out a maneuver to raise the average altitude of the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS), using the engines of a Progress MS-14 cargo spacecraft, Russia’s space corporation Roscosmos said on Thursday.

"On Thursday, September 10, 2020, Roscosmos specialists carried out the scheduled adjustment of the International Space Station’s orbit," Roscosmos said.

Engines of the Progress MS-14 cargo spacecraft currently docked with the station were switched on at 23:32 Moscow time and worked for 225 seconds.

"The maneuver was carried out in order to establish ballistic conditions ahead of the Soyuz MS-17 manned spacecraft launch and docking," the space corporation said.