On the test station of the Rocket and Space Corporation “Energy” them. S.P. Queen (Roskosmos State Corporation) completed technological tests of the nodal module “Pier” in the composition of the MM-MM-MO-MO module transport cargo ship. Today, July 31, 2021, the ship went to the Baikonur cosmodrome technical complex to continue assembly and pre-flight preparation in accordance with the schedule of the further development of the Russian segment of the International Space Station.
Over the past weeks in the territory of Kis, the Energy RCC specialists successfully completed the joint test cycle of the “Pier” module with complex stands of the Star service module and a multipurpose laboratory module “Science”. After the final operations, the blasting components of the ship and the ground test equipment were prepared for shipping on the cosmodrome by rail.
The removal of the “Pier” nodular orbit of the nodal module in the “Progress M-mind” transport cargo ship using the Soyuz-2.1 carrier missile is planned in November 2021.