Russia's FCC to carry out ISS orbit adjustment on Wednesday.

MOSCOW, September 15 (Itar-Tass) - Specialists at Russia's Flight
Control Center (FCC) will carry out an operation to adjust the orbit of
the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday by using the engines of
the newly arrived Progress resupply spacecraft.
FCC specialists have told Itar-Tass, "The purpose of the operation is
to shape the space station's orbit to ensure the landing of the spaceship
Soyuz TMA-18 together with the ISS-23/24 crew in an assigned area east of
the Kazakhstani city of Dzhezkazgan". The maneuver will also create
favourable conditions for the ISS docking with the first modified
spaceship Soyuz TMA-01M, whichiwllbring the crew of next expedition to the
ISS on October 10.
Eight berthing and orientation engines of the resupply spacecraft
Progress M-07M, which docked with the service module Zvezda (star) two
days ago, on September 12. The ignition of the engines is scheduled for
13:04, Moscow time, the FCC specialists specified. Within 526 seconds of
the engines' operation, the ISS will rise by approximately two kilometres.
Orbit adjustment maneuvers are usually carried out to bring the ISS to
the needed point for docking with a resupply spacecraft or a manned
spaceship. The ISS orbit is changed from time to time for it to evade
collision with space debris -- small meteorites, the fragments of old
satellites, or spaceships. This is how it was, for example, in mid-July
2009 when the Endeavor space shuttle, docked with the space station, had
to divert the ISS from a dangerous approach to a space object.
The landing of the Soyuz spaceship with three cosmonauts on board is
scheduled for September 24, FCC added.
The ISS orbital complex descends by 150-200 metres every day.

.10th summit of Turkic speaking countries to open in Istanbul.

ANKARA, September 15 (Itar-Tass) - The 10th summit of Turkic speaking
countries opens in Istanbul on Wednesday. The Heads of State intend to
finalize the process of founding a new international organization, a
Cooperation Council of Turkic Speaking Countries (CCTC), with headquarters
in Istanbul, and to approve the candidacy of a Secretary-General of the
Organization.
The summit will be attended by Presidents Abdullah Gul of Turkey,
Ilkham Aliyev of Azerbaijan, Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan, Roza
Otunbayeva of Kyrgyzstan, and Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov of Turkmenistan.
The idea of establishing such a cooperation council was first
suggested at a summit in Antalya in 2006 by Nursultan Nazarbayev. In 2009,
at the forum in Nakhichevan, the idea was sealed in an agreement on the
founding of the new international organization. The CCTC will become the
basis for the establishment of a new regional all-Turkic association
called upon to enhance the unity of the peoples that live in a similar
linguistic and cultural environment and to strengthen political, trade and
economic contacts.
Participants in the summit will also discuss a wide range of
international and regional matters. The agenda also includes an item
concerning the setting up of a consultative and deliberative body, a
Council of Elders. Mustapha Isen, head of the secretariat of the President
of Turkey, is expected to head the Council of Elders.
The summit will be preceded by a meeting at the level of Foreign
ministers and Foreign Ministry officials of Turkic speaking countries.

.CSTO coordinating council to meet in Kazakhstan Wed.

MOSCOW, September 15 (Itar-Tass) - Counteraction to illegal migration,
including trade in humans, is to be discussed in Astana, the capital of
Kazakhstan, on Wednesday at a regular session of the Coordinating council
of the chiefs of competent agencies of the member-countries of the
Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) on efforts to keep out
illegal migration.
An official in the press service of CSTO has told Itar-Tass, "Those
present at the session will consider matters aimed at counteracting
illegal migration, including trade in humans, the results of the first
phase of Operation Illegal Alien-2010, and the tasks of the competent
agencies of the CSTO member-states during the second phase of the
operation".
The official said, "The leaders of the competent agencies of the CSTO
will also review the implementation of the CSTO Action Plan for a period
until 2012 for the formation of a collective system to counteract illegal
migration of the citizens of third countries, and measures to strengthen
interaction among the competent agencies in curbing trade in humans".
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