In accordance with the Russian Flight Program of the International Space Station, on September 28, 2021, the renabase of the transport piloted ship “Soyuz MS-18” has been planned from a small research module “Dawn” to the newly arrived multipurpose laboratory module “Science”.
According to preliminary data of the main operational group of the Russian segment of the ISS (Rocket and Space Corporation “Energy” named after S.P. Queen, part of the state corporation “Roscosmos”), the estimated time of the ship’s department – 15:21 Moscow time, autonomous The flight will last pre-40 minutes. The renovation will spend in manual mode of the ship commander, the astronaut Roscosmos Oleg Novitsky with the participation of flights – astronaut Roscosmos Peter Dubrov and Astronaut NASA Mark Vanda Haya.
This operation will be carried out in order to release the dutch module dutch assembly, to which the Soyuz MS-19, as well as to verify the operation of the docking equipment of a multi-purpose laboratory module, which became part of the Russian segment Stations at the end of July. For this, first of all, the “Soyuz MS-18” pilotable ship is resettled, and then the MS-17 Progress Cargo Ship. It is he who will prepare an international space station for receiving a new node module “Pier”. From July 2, 2021 and to the present, the Russian “truck” docked to the Small Research Module “Search”, it is scheduled to be scheduled for October 23. After two days of an autonomous flight, it is expected to automatically dock the science module nodule.
Now there is a special adapter (ring-pad) on the docking unit “Science”, which allows you to step by Russian ships “Soyuz MS” and “Progress MS”, so the MS-17 Progress ship will take him with him With the final domain with the station. After such a two-step test, the “Pier” module will be launched, the launch of which is scheduled for the end of November of this year.
In the near future, the crew of the piloted ship “Union MS-18” will hold onboard training in the upcoming operation. Oleg Novitsky, Peter Dubrov and Mark Wanda Hi, together with the specialists of the main operational management team, will work out the actions of preparation and directly cyclogram of reloading. As part of a three-hour training, they will work out the work provided and will check the condition of the equipment, consulted in gradually with Russian experts on Earth.
At the moment, seven crew members are on board the international space station: Oleg Novitsky astronauts and Peter Dubrov, NASA Astronauts Mark Wanda Hai, Shane Kimbrow and Megan Makurtur, Astronaut of the European Space Agency Space Agency, as well as Akikhidoe Akikhiko astronaut. A cosmonaut of Roscosmos Anton Slipples, as well as participants in the space flight – Actress Julia Peresildo and Director Klim Shipenko, should fly on the ship “Union MS-19”.