In the failure of the MS-16 of MS-16 cargo ship, a poor-quality resin, which was used in the manufacture of head fairings of the Soyuz Web, was to blame for docking in February. This was reported by RIA Novosti source in rocket and space industry.
resin is used to calculate the inner surface of the fairing.
“The camcorders installed in the head fairing of the Soyuz-2.1a missile showed a comprehensive picture. The commission found out that in the manufacture of fairings, a unstable resin from a third-party supplier was used,” the interlocutor explained.
Source stressed that the requirements for the quality control of production tightened. He also reminded that the space start of the ship “Progress MS-17” is scheduled for June 30.
On February 17, “Progress MS-16” was docked to the ISS cosmonaut Sergey Ryzhikov using a manual teleoperator management mode, after a distance of about 20 meters to the station, the ship deviated from the precipitation axis.
December 31, 2020 due to a delay in the departure of the GRADRESS “Progress MS-16” Russians at the International Space Station (ISS) remained without New Year’s gifts from relatives. RIA Novosti told about this in the service of psychological support of the crew. Gifts were supposed to send to a station on December 11, however, the launch was transferred to February.
In July 2020, the docking spacecraft “Progress MS-15” with the International Space Station (ISS) took place for about a minute before the planned and accompanied by a software failure, which led to the deviation of this truck from the initial trajectory and its “fleeing” At a distance of three to five meters from the ISS.