On the Baikonur cosmodrome, active work continues to prepare for the launch of the transport piloted ship “Union MS-19” under the program of the International Space Station. This morning, October 1, 2021, in accordance with the decision of the State Commission, the removal of the “Soyuz-2.1a” launch vehicle was taken on the starting complex of the site number 31.
Specialists of subsidiaries of the state corporation “Roscosmos” began transporting a rocket from the installation and test case at 05:30 Moscow time (at 07:30 local). By tradition, a duplicating crew was observed for export. Early in the morning from the hotel “Cosmonaut” a bus with an astronaut Roscosmos, Oleg Artemyev, film operator Alexei Dudin and actress Alena Mordovina. In the conditions of restrictive measures operating on the Baikonur cosmodrome, the tradition of the dubler was observed.
After installing the carrier rocket in the vertical position and information of the service columns, the joint calculation of the Baikonur cosmodrome has begun work on the first starting day schedule. After docking the media communications with terrestrial equipment, autonomous tests of systems and vehicle units, carrier missiles and starting complex will be carried out, after which – a report on the results of today’s tests.
The start of the transport piloted ship “Union MS-19” is scheduled for October 5, 2021 at 11:55 Moscow time from the Baikonur cosmodrome. The planned duration of the crew of the ISS-66 – 174 days. The estimated duration of the participants in the space flight to the ISS is at least 12 days. Mostly the crew of the ISS-66: Cosmonaut Roscosmos Anton Slipples, film director Klim Shipenko, Actress Julia Peresilde.
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Soyuz-2.1A carrier rocket is a three-step rocket of the middle class, which is a modified version of (stage of modernization – 1a) of the Naiza-y carrier rocket. Designed to ensure the launches of military, national economic and social spacecraft.
The carrier rocket was developed and manufactured in the Progress Rocket and Space Center (Samara, is part of the state corporation “Roscosmos”). It is equipped with a new digital control system, one for all three steps, as well as a new digital radiotelemetric measurement system. Installation on the “Soyuz-2” digital control carrier increased the accuracy of the removal, stability and controllability of the carrier rocket, allowed to use large-sized fairies.