Russian Poisk module for equipping the laboratory
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Tuesday at 15:22 CET with the Russian cosmodrome in Baikonur (Kazakhstan) successfully according to the International Space Station launched a new Russian module called "Poisk". During this day, this module is supposed to be connected with the ISS on the "upper" side of the existing Russian module Zarya and Zvezda. The primary purpose of the module Poisk to serve as a binding module for the future type of ships docking pilotiranih nepilotiranih Soyuz and Progress transport ship types. Russian astronauts to the so-called. spacewalks for their use of the space station as Poisk međuodjeljak (chamber) to go out in the open space. It will also house part of the apparatus and scientific research for several years that it can be connected to one module becomes more scientific.
It was first installed on the Russian segment of the ISSU brought into space after 2001. year.
The new module has a mass of over 4000kg, the dimensions of 2.6 × 4.6m and volume of 12.6 cubic meters and somewhat resembles a module Pirš launching 2,001th It is now several hundred pounds of supplies and equipment that will connect with the astronauts and the ISS checks distributed to the isolation of the Poisk and in other parts of the ISSA. Among other things it provides a new type of Orlan spacesuits designed for demanding work in open space.
Position Poisk and the ISSU
Sam is a module known as the Mini Research Module-2. In May of next year, the ISS will be installed another Russian module (Mini Research Module-1) which is now in final preparations before transportation to the U.S. Space Center in Florida, since it will carry into space Shuttle Atlantis mission STS-132nd
Cosmonauts Oleg Kotov and Maxim Suraev Posik have the task of preparing all the equipment and accessories (there is a crucial installation of antennas and other segments of Kursk) for the automated docking of spacecraft.
Soyuz TMA-16 in late January next year will be the first spacecraft that will connect to the ISS using the place of port on the module Poisk.
More detailed analysis of Russian efforts at further equipping the ISSA and the statements of some leaders of the European Space Agency to provide a conclusion on their part to space station is worth over $ 100 billion plan to use at least until 2025. year. Even if Americans give up its operation in the period 2015-2020. year.
In such a scenario of events the Russians would be able to download the entire station or a separate part of their creation as a separate space.
Marino Tumpić