At the Yu.A. Gagarin, on February 24, 2021, an examination training was held on the teleoperator mode of control of the “Science” module, which is planned to be put into near-earth orbit this year. ISS-65 prime crew commander, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky and flight engineer, Roscosmos cosmonaut Pyotr Dubrov performed tasks to switch from automatic to manual control mode of the module.
During the exam, they alternately acted as operators. While one cosmonaut was operating the spacecraft on the specialized Teleoperator simulator, the other was monitoring the systems and actions of his partner. Oleg Novitsky worked out four emergency situations. In the exam ticket, the description of the situation looked something like this: in automatic mode – the image of the International Space Station leaves the field of view of the module’s TV camera, in the TORU – a short-term disappearance of the TV image (interference). A similar task was completed by Peter Dubrov, but in his ticket the sequence of emergency situations was different, and such an introductory one as the cut-off situation was changed. Each cosmonaut was given two hours to complete tasks.
The exam was preceded by nine trainings on manual control of the “Science” module. In addition, the prime crew successfully demonstrated the skills of manual telecontrol of the Progress cargo ship during the examination training last week.
The cosmonauts coped with the assigned tasks perfectly. So the examination committee, chaired by the head of the 1st department of the CTC, pilot-cosmonaut, Hero of Russia Valery Korzun, decided. The ISS-65 prime crew backup, Roscosmos cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Oleg Artemyev have yet to demonstrate the skills of manual telecontrol of the Nauka module, but they have already passed the exam on manual approach of the Soyuz MS manned spacecraft with the station on the specialized Don-Soyuz simulator … Both crews began exam training in February and will complete them in the third decade of March 2021.