On the Baikonur cosmodrome from the Samara Rosco Space Center “Progress” (Roskosmos is included in the state corporation “Roskosmos”) arrived a railway composition with the blocks of carrier launchers “Soyuz-2.1a” and “Soyuz-2.1b” for the launches of spacecraft “Progress MS-18 “and” Progress M-mind “with the nodal module” Pier “under the program of the Russian segment of the International Space Station.
Cars with composite parts of rockets are transported by a complex of railway support of the South Space Center (a branch of the center of exploitation of the objects of ground-based space infrastructure is included in Roscosmos) for storage in the installation and test case No. 112 of the cosmodrome. Works on unloading the blocks of the Rocket “Soyuz-2.1b” on the technical complex are scheduled on August 21.
Start of the Soyuz-2.1b carrier missile with the Progress M-mind transport cargo ship and the nodal module “Pier” is planned in November 2021. The universal knotting module “Pier” is intended to expand the technical and operational capabilities of the Russian segment of the International Space Station.