The pre-flight preparation of the Transport Cargo Ship “Progress MS-17” continues on the Baikonur cosmodrome to launch under the program of the 78th Logistics Mission of the International Space Station.
Today, June 24, 2021 in the installation and test corps of the site No. 254 Specialists of the Rocket and Space Corporation “Energy” named after S.P. The Queen and profile enterprises of Roscosmos conducted the author’s inspection of “progress” and fulfilled a complex of technological operations for the head of the head fairing. After checking the startup readiness, the ship in the composition of the cosmic head part will be allowed to transport to the general assembly with the carrier rocket in the installation and test case No. 31.
Start of the Soyuz-2.1A carrier missile with the MS-17 Progress Cargo Ship Development and Production of Energy “Energy” is scheduled for June 30, 2021 from the site of the Baikonur cosmodrome. The ship must deliver on the ISS 470 kg of fuel refueling, 420 liters of drinking water in the pots of the Spring system, 40 kg of air and oxygen in cylinders, as well as 1,509 kg of various equipment and materials in the cargo compartment, including resource equipment and maintenance tools Systems, Medical Control Materials and Sanitary Supplies, Clothing Items, Standard Food Measures and Fresh Products for the crew members of the 65th major expedition. In addition, a set of targeted loads will go to the station as part of the implementation of the Russian program of scientific and applied research and experiments:
- laying “Neurolab” are designed to conduct a series of medical experiments “Pilot-T” to study the influence of long-term space flight factors on the quality of professional activity of astronauts;
- Correction Experiment materials are used to develop effective means of prevention of changes Bone tissue of astronauts in conditions of weightlessness;
- Biorisk and Constanta-2 laying serve as a laboratory to study the influence of space flight factors on the condition of complex protein compounds and survival of microorganisms;
- Experiment ” Probeivitis “is aimed at developing the production of pharmacological products with immunomodulatory properties in microgravity conditions;
- UV atmosphere equipment provides detailed mapping of the global structure of the night glow of the earth’s atmosphere to study meteorological processes and space weather.