On the Test Station Rocket and Space Corporation “Energy” named after S.P. The queen (part of the state corporation “Roskosmos”) ended the initial stage of the factory control tests of the piloted ship “Union MS-22”. Today, December 7, 2021, the ship went to the Baikonur cosmodrome to continue full preparation.
In the autumn of the current year, the Soyuz MS-22 ship has fully passed the program of autonomous testing of onboard systems and aggregates. Further electrical tests of the service equipment of the ship with the inspection inclusions of radiotechnical systems of rapprochement and docking, motion control and navigation, digital television and telemetry tools ended with an operation of the firmware of the onboard electronic computing machine. After the completion of complex, pneumatic and receiving tests, the “Union of MS-22” ended up the output control procedure and was prepared for shipping on the spacecraft railway.
Start of the Soyuz-2.1A carrier missile with the piloted ship “Soyuz MS-22” under the delivery program on the ISS participants of the 68th long-term expedition scheduled for September next year.