On the night of October 21, 2021 in accordance with the program of the International Space Station will begin to redock cargo spacecraft “Progress MS-17” with a small research module “Search” on the multi-purpose laboratory module “Science.” All stages of reloading are planned to be carried out automatically under the control of astronauts on board the ISS and specialists of the main operational flight of the Russian Segment of the Russian segment of the ISS (Rocket and Space Corporation “Energy” named after S.P. Queen, part of the state corporation “Roskosmos”) for the purpose of preparation Module “Science” to the reception of the new node module “Pier”.
Department of the Progress MS-17 ship from the docking node of a small research module, scheduled for 02:41 Moscow time on the team from the ground, will take place over the endless steppes of Mongolia. After undocking the ship will perform a departure from the station and freeze in anticipation of settlement of ballistic conditions for docking with “science.” Within 29 hours of autonomous flight “Space truck” will make a series of corrective maneuvers, removing from the ISS to a distance of 185 km. The docking of the ship with the Nadar Port of the Hermadapter Module “Science” is scheduled for October 22 at 07:31 Moscow time using the system of automatic convergence and docking “course”.
The MS-17 Progress Cargo Ship must finally leave the ISS and go off the orbit immediately before the launch of the MM-MM-MO-MOD module transport ship with the node module “Pier”. At the conclusion of his mission, “truck” undock from germoadaptera module “Science” with the transition spacer, which currently provides transport dock ships series “MS Soyuz” and “Progress MS.” Thus, the “Science” module will appear the possibility of a regular docking with the arriving module “Pier”, the launch of which is assumed at the end of November of the current year.