From the Baikonur cosmodrome on November 24, 2021, a launch of the Soyuz-2.1b carrier missile was launched with the “Progress M-mind” transport cargo ship and the “Progress” module. Friday held a successful docking of the module cargo ship with the Russian segment of the International Space Station.
Roscosmos State Corporation Dmitry Rogozin In the next issue of the General Line, told about the peculiarities of the new module of the Russian segment of the International Space Station and its role in the development of technologies for the future Russian orbital service station.
on the functionality of “berth”
“berth” is in some sense by the prototype for such a nodal modules of the future Russian orbital service station. Not only manned ships can be shrinkable to it, but also other modules. If, let’s say, for the Russian segment of the ISS, we do not assume the creation of another module, then for Ross such modules will provide connecting units for both new modules and ships.
As the experience of the construction of the Russian segment of the ISS will affect the appearance of the future Russian orbital service station
in the cosmic sphere, as in any other high-tech sphere, it is important that there are no interruptions in the development of technologies. Therefore, we will go to a kind of “technological goal”. That is, on the one hand, we use existing and effective, which have proven its reliability of technical means, such as a manned system consisting of two ships (“Progress” and “Union”), and modularity of the station design. But we also associate high hopes with the development of new technical means that should appear at the turn of 2026-2027. They will be determined within the framework of a sketch design on the creation of a Russian orbital service station. That is, sketching design will assume both a new station work and on a new transport system for low orbits.