The final stage of the pre-flight training of the MS-19 Transportation Cargo Ship continues on the Baikonur cosmodrome. In the installation and test case of the site No. 254, a planned operation of the control illustration of solar batteries of the ship power supply system was held.
With terrestrial testing of the functioning of the solar panels of the ship “Progress MS-19” Specialists of the Rocket and Space Corporation “Energy” named after S.P. The Koroleva performed a regular deployment of sections of the photocells and irradiated with powerful lamps to control the efficiency of the transformation of light energy into electrical. In addition, the tests began to prepare for the refueling of airborne oxygen supply tools and started loading equipment and materials intended for delivery to the international space station
Start of the Soyuz-2.1A carrier missile with the MS-19 Progress Cargo Ship under the ISS Supply Mission Program is scheduled for February 15, 2022 from Baikonur cosmodrome.