OREANDA-NEWS The Rocket and Space Corporation (RSC) "Energia" (part of "Roscosmos") has patented a method that allows a spacecraft to reach the International Space Station (ISS) in about two hours, the head of the corporation's ballistics department, Rafail Murtazin, told TASS.

According to him, the corresponding patent, issued on November 12, 2021, is included in the Russian register of state acquisitions.

According to the RSC proposal, the spacecraft, after separation from the third stage of the rocket and the execution of two pulses, should be placed into a coelliptic orbit. At the moment when the ISS is observed from a spacecraft at an angle of 23 degrees above the horizon, the crew manually performs an impulse that leads it to the vicinity of the station after half a turn.

"The trajectory of the launch vehicle (LV) in the flight section of the first and second stages remains unchanged. When the third stage starts working, the control system smoothly unfolds the PH along the course and brings it to a new inclination, two to three hundredths of a degree different from the inclination of the ISS," the head of the ballistics department clarified.

According to him, the corresponding capabilities of the rocket were confirmed at the Progress Rocket and Space Center and the Scientific and Production Association of Automation.

In December 2018, Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin promised cosmonauts and tourists flights to the ISS faster than the Moscow — Brussels flight.