MOSCOW, June 9. /TASS/. The engines of a Soyuz spacecraft, docked to the International Space Station (ISS), which is to return on June 11 three astronauts to Earth, started abnormally and the location of the station changed, Russian Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said Tuesday.
"Today, on June 9, 2015, at 18:32 Moscow Time, during scheduled testing of the radio system of rapprochement and docking of the International Space Station and the Soyuz spacecraft, Soyuz’s engines started abnormally, which led to a slight change of the ISS location," Roscosmos said.
"All required measures to stabilize the ISS have been taken," it said.
Roscosmos said "there is no threat to the ISS crew, the station itself and a normal return of the Soyuz TMA-15M to Earth."
"Roscosmos specialists are establishing the causes of what happened, and the results will be reported later," it said.
A descent capsule of the Soyuz TMA-15M spacecraft with three astronauts is expected to land in Kazakh steppe on June 11. The astronauts had to stay in orbit a few weeks longer due to April’s accident involving a Progress spacecraft.
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