Multifunctional Space Relay System (MKSR) “Light” successfully completed the target tasks during the launch and docking of the transport piloted ship (TPK) “Union of MS-19” with the Russian ISS segment. The “Union of MS-19” delivered the crew in orbit as a cosmonaut of Roscosmos Anton Slippler and Space Flight participants – Kima Shipenko’s film director and actress Julia Peresilde, who will shoot on board the unique frames of the artistic film “Challenge” – the first artistic ribbon, shooting Which will be held in space.
After the exit of the piloted ship “Soyuz MS-19” from the zone of the radio abuse of ground-based communication (11th minute), the transfer of telemetric and team information from the spacecraft was carried out by means of the MKSR “Ray (operator – the satellite system” Gonole “, enters Roskosmos State Corporation). For this purpose, the channels of spacecraft “Bump-5a” and “Bump-5B”, onboard equipment installed on a spacecraft, ground infrastructure were used, .
A total of, starting with the withdrawal of the “Union” to the near-earth orbit, until the completion of its docking from the ISS, on October 5 at 15:22 Moscow time, 13 relay sessions were successfully conducted. Target information was successfully obtained and brought to end users. The planned operation of the “Light” system with the downtown ship “Union MS-19” will continue to continue in accordance with the established schedule.