Space ship-module “Progress M-mind” with a nodal module “Pier” docked to the International Space Station (ISS), Roskosmos reports.
Docking the last Russian module to the ISS took place on November 26 at 18:26 Moscow time.
Department of the instrument and aggregate compartment from “Pier” is scheduled for December 22 at 01:20.
Soyuz-2.1b rocket with the Progress M-MM-MM-MM-MO-MODE transport cargo ship and the nodal module “Pier” started from the Baikonur cosmodrome to the ISS on November 24 at 16:06.
In November, the historian of Cosmonautics Alexander Zheleznyakov informed the TASS that during the launch of the nodular module “Pier” to the ISS with the help of the Russian Rocket “Soyuz-2.1b” a record was established. The agency reminded that the maximum deductible orbit-free load “Union-2” is 8.25 tons, then 8.18 tons will be displayed on November 24.
In the same month, Roscosmos reported that the “Soyuz-2.1b” missile, which the last module was to be derived to the orbit for the Russian segment of the ISS, were taken out and installed on the starting table on the Baikonur cosmodrome.
In July, the Proton-M rocket was launched from Baikonur to the ISS with a “Science” module.