on Sunday, November 21, 2021, Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket with the Progress M-mind transport cargo ship and the berth module installed on the starting range of the site number 31 (“East”) Cosmodrome Baikonur. Roskosmos specialists are now working on the first starting day schedule.
Transportation of the rocket from the installation and test case began at 05:30 Moscow time. After the information of the maintenance columns and docking the media communications with ground equipment of the starting complex, the specialists have begun work on the first starting day schedule. Today it is to perform autonomous tests of systems and truck units, carrier missiles and starting complex, then the final operations on the “zero” and the report on the results of the first starting day.
The launch of the node module “Pier” is scheduled for November 24, 2021 at 16:06 Moscow time. The new module is designed to build up the technical and operational capabilities of the Russian segment of the International Space Station. It will be docked back to the nadrid node of the multi-purpose laboratory module “Science”.