Rocket and Space Corporation “Energy” named after S. P. Korolev (included in the state corporation “Roscosmos”) received a patent for the simply planning scheme of ships to the International Space Station. Its implementation will allow piloted and cargo ships to get to the ISS in two hours.
We were given a patent, from November 12, it was included in the register of the state inventions of the Russian Federation, “said Rafail Murtazin, head of the Ballistics Department of the RKK” Energy “.
Russian specialists began to work out the elements of the simulatory scheme when flying the Progress MS-17 cargo ship to the ISS in June-July 2021. According to Rafail Murtazin, it is planned to continue to work in June 2022 with the flight “Progress MS-20”.
As the general designer stated on the piloted space systems and the complexes Vladimir Solovyov, the simply planning scheme of the “Progress” flight to the ISS is planned to be implemented from 2023.
From 2012 and 2013, respectively, the “Progress” cargo ships and the pilotable “unions” began to fly to the station on a four-wicket (six-hour) scheme instead of 34-vitakova (two-day), which allowed cosmonauts to get used to adverse university factors in comfortable conditions on the ISS . To date, 30 flights of Russian ships on a four-duct scheme
From 2018 and 2020, the “Prosters” and “Unions” began to use the two-hour (three-hour) scheme. In October 2020, the Soyuz MS-17 ship set a record in the crew delivery to the ISS – for 3 hours 3 minutes 37 seconds. To date, eight flights of Russian ships on the two-ventilation scheme are performed.