The state corporation Roskosmos reports that at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, specialists from the Rocket and Space Corporation Energia named after. S.P. Korolev and the Center. M.V. Khrunichev is preparing the Nauka module for the International Space Station (ISS) for the final tests.
The named block, after many years of creation and refinement, this week was finally from the rocket and space plant GKNPTs them. M.V. Khrunichev at Baikonur. To transport the module itself and related equipment, a train with 14 wagons was required.
It is noted that within ten days, specialists from the enterprises of the Russian rocket and space industry will carry out a series of operations to prepare the workplace of the module and install it in the assembly and test building of the cosmodrome.
After that, complex testing of Nauki's onboard systems and quality control of the product as a whole will begin. If there are no complaints, the module will be prepared for launch: the launch into orbit is now scheduled for April next year.
After being commissioned into the ISS, the new module will provide more than 30 universal jobs - external and internal. "Science" will be able to produce oxygen for six people, as well as regenerate water from urine. The block has a port for docking transport ships.
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