In the installation and test case of the site No. 254 of the Baikonur cosmodrome, work on the decolment and preparation of the transport piloted ship “Soyuz MS-19” to the final stage of the pre-flight test program was completed.
This week, in accordance with the schedule, the division of the Soyuz MS-19 ship was held in storage mode at the technical complex from January 2021. After installing the ship in the stapel specialists of the Rocket and Space Corporation “Energy” named after S.P. The Queen (part of the state corporation “Roskosmos”) conducted an external inspection of the product and control of the original state of the onboard systems, connected terrestrial test equipment, completed the assembly of the test diagrams and checking on the service equipment, as well as autonomous tests and installation of the Kazbek crew seats.
Work plan for the near future provides for the preparation of a ship to complex electrical tests, testing on-board automation and checking the tightness of the thermal regime system circuits.
Start of the Soyuz-2.1A carrier launch vehicle with a transport piloted ship “Union MS-19” on the program of delivery of the participants of the 66th major expedition to the international space station is scheduled for October 2021.