In the foreseeable future, the Soyuz-MS ship can go to the International Space Station using a new simulatory scheme. About this in his Twitter reported the head of the Russian Space Department Dmitry Rogozin.
The head of Roskosmos did not specify which of the previously tested schemes the department intends to use on an ongoing basis.
Attachment scheme of rapprochement with the orbital station was developed by the Energy RCC specialists in 2019. As they stated in the press service of the Corporation, it can be used for flight in about a few years.
We will remind, launched in October 2020, the Soyuz MS-17 got to the ISS for a record short period of time: the flight took three hours and three minutes. The ship delivered on board the station of three crew members: Sergey Ryzhikov astronauts and Sergey Kud-Schurchkov, as well as Astronaut NASA Kathleen Rubins.
This result was achieved by applying the two-ventilated flight scheme. The previous flight time record to the station belongs to the unmanned spacecraft "Progress MS-15", which was launched in July 2020. He got to the ISS for three hours and 18 minutes.
In the future, the "Union" and "progress" devices want to replace a fundamentally new reusable spacecraft: he is known under the designation "Eagle" and "Federation". As stated in 2019 in the RKK "Energia", the version of the ship that will be launched to the ISS will be able to be in the station for 365 days. This option will be able to deliver to 500 kilograms of cargo on board the ISS.
In the 2020th, the source in the rocket and space industry reported that the Space department worked out the option of creating a light version of the Eagle ship, called "Orlenok" and intended for expeditions to the Moon. "The ship will be designed for the crew of two people," the source noted.
This version is obliged to its birth of the changed concept of exploration of the Earth's satellite. The revision of the super-heavy carrier project, known as "Yenisei", led to the fact that the first piloted expeditions to the Moon want to carry out with the help of "hangars" having less carrying capacity. Thus, there was a need for a spacecraft having a smaller (in comparison with the basic version of the Orel) mass.
Recall, last year "Angara-A5" made the second launch in his history.
Source: Naked Science