On the test station of the Rocket and Space Corporation “Energy” named after S.P. The queen (part of the state corporation “Roskosmos”) ended the initial stage of the factory integrated testing of the “Progress MS-20” cargo ship. Today, June 24, 2021, he went to the Baikonur cosmodrome to continue full training in accordance with the schedule of the program of transport support of the Russian segment of the International Space Station.
Since mid-March of the current year, “Progress MS-20” in full, the program of autonomous testing of on-board systems and aggregates was held. Further control electrical tests of the service equipment of the ship with the inspection inclusions of radio engineering systems of rapprochement and docking, motion control and navigation, digital television and telemetry tools ended with the operation of the firmware of the onboard electronic computing machine.
After the completion of complex, pneumatic and receiving tests, the MS-20 Progress ship has respected the output control procedure and was prepared for shipping on the cosmodrome by rail.
Start of the Soyuz-2.1A carrier missile with the Progress MS-20 transport cargo ship under the program of the 81st supply of the Russian segment of the International Space Station is scheduled for the spring of next year.