Transport shipping module “Progress M-mind” with a nodal module “Pier” was taken to the Baikonur cosmodrome assembly assembly for continuing the assembly program and sample tests on the technical complex.
This morning, August 11, 2021, a unloading and movement of the Progress M-mind ship took place in the installation and test case of the site No. 254. In the hall No. 104, specialists of the Rocket and Space Corporation “Energy” named after S.P. The Queen (part of the state corporation “Roskosmos”) performed the installation of the instrument and aggregate compartment and the “Pier” module on the jobs, and then started assembling and deploying ground tools of the automated test system of the technical complex. As part of the ship’s input control procedure, an external inspection of the instrument and aggregate compartment was also carried out and checking the mechanisms for the disclosure of the solar panels of the ship “Progress M-mind”.
Universal nodular module “Pier” development and production of the RKK “Energy” them. SP Queen is designed to expand the technical and operational capabilities of the Russian segment of the International Space Station. The removal of the “berth” on the near-earth orbit and docking to the nadarth node of the multi-purpose laboratory module “Science” is planned in November 2021.