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After Zarya reached orbit, STS-88 launched on 4 December 1998 to attach the Unity module. Although only designed to fly autonomously for six to eight months, Zarya was required to do so for almost two years due to delays to the Russian Service Module, Zvezda. Zvezda was finally launched on 12 July 2000, docking with Zarya on 26 July 2000.
Unity has two axial and four radial Common Berthing Mechanism (CBM) ports. In addition to connecting to the Zarya module, Unity connects to the U.S. Destiny Laboratory Module (added on STS-98), the Z1 truss (an early exterior framework for the station added on STS-92), the PMA-3 (also added on STS-92), and the Quest Joint Airlock (added on STS-104).
Feustel and Fincke then moved on to finish up the installation of the wireless video system which Fuestel and Greg Chamitoff had begun to install on EVA 1. The pair also took pictures of the Zarya module's thrusters and captured some infrared video of an experiment delivered on board the Express Logistics Carrier (ELC) 3. [62]
Support per nomination. There are 13 entries listed upon the Zarya (disambiguation) page, with no indication that the scientific and historical positioning of the ISS module is at such an elevated level in the English-speaking world that it overtakes the combined renown of the 12 remaining entries.
The foundation for the ISS was laid with the launch of the Russian-built Zarya module atop a Proton rocket on 20 November 1998. Zarya provided propulsion, attitude control, communications, and electrical power. Two weeks later on 4 December 1998, the American-made Unity was ferried aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour on STS-88 and joined with Zarya.
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Currently PMA-1 is used to connect the Unity node with the Zarya module on the ISS. Pressurized Mating Adapter-2 is located on the forward end of Harmony, while PMA-3 is located in the zenith port of the same node. [16] [circular reference] PMA-2 was the main Shuttle docking port, with PMA-3 being its backup, used only a few times.
The DSM would have been mounted to Zarya ' s nadir (Earth-facing) docking port. It would have been similar in size and shape to the Zarya module. The DSM was canceled due to Russian budgetary constraints for some time, but its design was eventually modified into the Docking and Cargo Module ( Rassvet ) that was to be connected to the same Zarya ...