From the end of April 2021, at the site No. 200 of the Baikonur cosmodrome, the South Sports Center Specialists (a branch of the Center for Objects of Ground Space Infrastructure, is included in the state corporation “Roskosmos”) conduct additional technical equipment of the starting complex of the Proton-M .
Due to the uniqueness of the gabarites of the head fairing for the multifunctional laboratory module “Science” on the starting complex, it is necessary to finalize the air system for ensuring the temperature regime of the cosmic head, as well as the service platforms intended for access personnel to the rocket. In these works, employees of the Test Center number 2, the Center for the Organization and Control Tests and Specialists of Related Organizations (Branch “of SPU-TSKB TM” – the Special Design Bureau “Titan” and Vniesikholodmash).
To date, the development and correction of the design documentation has been carried out, a program of comprehensive testing has been developed, the equipment for the improvement of the starting complex is manufactured and put on the cosmodrome. At the moment, installation is carried out, and the next step is commissioning and complex tests of the starting complex.
Note that in 1998 and 2000. When preparing for the launch of the “Zarya” and “Star” modules for the Russian segment of the International Space Station at the starting site of the site No. 81 of the Baikonur cosmodrome, works were also carried out on the necessary re-equipment.