In accordance with the opening schedule for work on the Baikonur cosmodrome, the pneumatic testing of the Soyuz-2.1B carrier rocket was completed. Checks on the tightness of all stages of the carrier continued for three days in the installation and test case of the technical complex of the site number 31.
Currently, specialists of the South Space Center (branch of the center of exploitation of the objects of land space infrastructure) and the Roskosmos Space Center (included in the state corporation “Roskosmos”) conduct an assembly of testing scheme, checking the on-board system measurement system of refueling, and Also autonomous tests of measurement systems.
Start of the Soyuz-2.1b carrier missile with the transport cargo ship “Progress M-mind” is scheduled for November 24, 2021. The nodular module “Pier” is intended for increasing the technical and operational capabilities of the Russian segment of the International Space Station. The module is joined to the nadilla node of the multi-purpose laboratory module “Science”.