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It was used for the first docking to a space station in the history of space flight, with the Soyuz 10 and Soyuz 11 missions that docked to the Soviet space station Salyut 1 in 1971. [1] [15] The docking system was upgraded in the mid-1980s to allow the docking of 20 ton modules to the Mir space station. [16]
Prichal (Russian: Причал, lit. 'pier'), also known as the Uzlovoy Module (UM, Russian: узловой модуль, romanized: Uzlovoy Modool, lit. 'Node Module') is a Russian-built component of the International Space Station (ISS). This cylindrical module has six docking ports (forward, aft, port, starboard, zenith, and nadir) to ...
The initial ISS plan included a Docking and Storage Module (DSM). This planned Russian element was intended to provide facilities for stowage and an additional docking port and would have been launched to the station on a Proton launch vehicle. The DSM would have been mounted to Zarya ' s nadir (Earth-facing) docking
Salyut 1 (DOS-1) (Russian: Салют-1) was the world's first space station; it was launched into low Earth orbit by the Soviet Union on April 19, 1971. The Salyut program followed this with five more successful launches of seven more stations. The final module of the program, Zvezda (DOS-8), became the core of the Russian segment of the ...
APAS-95 was selected to join the American and Russian modules on the International Space Station (ISS) and to allow the Space Shuttle to dock. The Shuttle's Orbiter Docking System remained unchanged from when it was used for the Shuttle–Mir Program in 1995.
SSVP docking system. Sistema Stykovki i Vnutrennego Perekhoda, SSVP (Russian: Система стыковки и внутреннего перехода, System for docking and internal transfer) is a docking standard used by Soviet and Russian spacecraft, [1] sometimes called RDS for Russian Docking System. It has been used on all variants of ...
ISS Russian orbital segment after docking of UM Prichal module Cosmonaut Nikolai Budarin working inside one of the crew quarters aboard Zvezda service module. The Russian Orbital Segment (ROS) is the name given to the components of the International Space Station (ISS) constructed in Russia and operated by the Russian Roscosmos.
Experiment Airlock berthed and Soyuz MS-23 docked Nauka; Egressing payloads outside the station . The airlock, Shk, is designed for a payload with dimensions up to 1,200 mm × 500 mm × 500 mm (47 in × 20 in × 20 in), has a volume of 2.1 m 3, weight of 1050 kg and consumes 1.5 kW of power at the peak.