After an 8-day journey, Russia successfully upgraded its capabilities on the International Space Station after its new Nauka module successfully docked. This module will serve as a research lab, storage unit and airlock. After launching from Kazakhstan’s Baikonur Cosmodrome last week, the module encountered several issues, including a series of glitches that raised concerns about the docking procedure. Read more for two videos and additional information.
Aside from being the main laboratory of the Russian ISS segment, Nauka is going to be used as a temporary docking compartment. It will have a passive docking port called Nauka nadir and only be used for relocated dockings of Soyuz MS-18 and Progress MS-17. When Progress MS-17 undocks on November 24, 2021, the module’s nadir port docking adapter will be removed and both deorbited together into the atmosphere of Earth to burn up over the South Pacific Ocean.
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According to telemetry data and reports from the ISS crew, the onboard systems of the station and the Nauka module are operating normally,” said Roscosmos in a press statement.
