Tonight, August 9, 2021, Echelon with the nodal module “Pier” in the MM-MM-MM-MO MO module transport shipping cargo ship arrived at the Tourats railway station to continue assembly and pre-train on the Baikonur cosmodrome technical complex.
Currently, transport containers with components of the Progress M-mind ship have already been transported to the installation and test case of the site No. 254. Then specialists of the Rocket and Space Corporation “Energy” them. S.P. The Queen (Roscosmos State Corporation) will begin to unload the ground test equipment and a ship with a module, they will conduct their primary input control and installation on workplaces before starting technological operations in accordance with the training schedule.
The removal of the module “Pier” to the near-earth orbit and inclusion in the Russian segment of the International Space Station is planned in November 2021. The nodal module is designed to build up the technical and operational capabilities of the Russian ISS segment. It will be docked to the nadrid node of the multi-purpose laboratory module “Science”.