As part of the preparation for the launch of the transport piloted ship “Union MS-21” on the Baikonur cosmodrome, a motor installation of the emergency rescue system arrived. She was delivered to the airport “Extreme” aircraft IL-76. Currently, its transportation was carried out in construction No. 54 of the site No. 112 of the cosmodrome.
Emergency salvation system allows you to save the lifestyle of a ship crew in case of a possible emergence of an abnormal situation on the “Soyuz-2” rocket. It includes automation, power, geropribers, motor installation, head fairing engines, as well as mechanisms and aggregates that are placed on the head fairing. In trouble-free flight with a regular set of a rocket-carrier of a sufficient height of the “bar” system of emergency rescue, is shot from the head fairing.
Start of the Soyuz-2.1A carrier missile with a piloted ship “Union MS-21” scheduled on March 18, 2022 from the starting complex “East” of the Baikonur cosmodrome. For the first time during the existence of this station, three Russian professional cosmonauts entered the crew – Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveyev and Sergey Korsakov.