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July 25, 2021
Based on the results of an operational meeting of the control group at the Flight Control Center of TsNIIMash (part of the Roscosmos State Corporation), specialists, based on the data obtained from telemetry and based on the need to build optimal orbit conditions, decided to adjust the plans for undocking and flooding the Pirs module ... These operations are currently scheduled for Monday 26 July 2021.
International Space Station (ISS) Satellite photo taken by Aist-2D
On Saturday, Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Novitsky and Pyotr Dubrov closed the transfer hatches between the Pirs module and the Russian segment of the International Space Station, and checked them for leaks. The physical separation of the bundle from the Progress MS-16 cargo vehicle and the Pirs module from the ISS is tentatively scheduled at 13:56 Moscow time on July 26, and the fall of the fireproof structural elements of the module and the ship in the Pacific Ocean - at 17:51 Moscow time. the same day.
Progress MS cargo vehicle and the Pirs module
Now the Pirs docking module is docked to the nadir port of the Zvezda service module of the Russian segment of the station. It is planned that after undocking its place will be taken by the multipurpose laboratory module "Science", which was launched on Wednesday from the Baikonur cosmodrome and is in autonomous flight.
International Space Station (ISS) Satellite photo taken by Aist-2D
On the eve of this event, the small spacecraft for remote sensing of the Earth "Aist-2D", developed at the Progress Rocket and Space Center (Samara, part of the State Corporation Roscosmos), photographed the International Space Station. RCC "Progress" is the operator of the satellite "Aist-2D", providing control, reception, processing and distribution of the received information of remote sensing of the Earth.
Related article:
ROSCOSMOS - MCC carried out two more orbit corrections of the Nauka module
https://orbiterchspacenews.blogspot.com/2021/07/roscosmos-mcc-carried-out-two-more.html
Related links:
ROSCOSMOS Press Release: https://www.roscosmos.ru/31984/
TsNIIMash: https://www.roscosmos.ru/tag/cniimash/
RSC Energia: https://www.roscosmos.ru/tag/rkk-ehnergija/
MCC: https://www.roscosmos.ru/tag/cup/
International Space Station (ISS): https://www.roscosmos.ru/tag/mks/
Images, Text, Credits: ROSCOSMOS/NASA/Orbiter.ch Aerospace/Roland Berga.
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