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New Russian Port Module Set to Launch From Kazakhstan to International Space Station Nov. 24

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The new Russian docking module to the International Space Station, the five-ton Prichal docking module, and its modified uncrewed Russian Progress delivery spacecraft, is scheduled to launch atop a Soyuz 2.1b booster from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 8:06 a.m. EST on Wednesday, Nov. 24. (NASA image)

(NASA) – The new Russian docking module to the International Space Station, the five-ton Prichal docking module, and its modified uncrewed Russian Progress delivery spacecraft, is scheduled to launch atop a Soyuz 2.1b booster from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 8:06 a.m. EST on Wednesday, Nov. 24.

After separating from the Soyuz rocket’s upper stage, Progress will transport Prichal for an automated docking with the space station’s Nauka multipurpose laboratory module two days later, at 10:26 a.m. Friday, Nov. 26.

Prichal, named for the Russian word for port or berth, has five available docking ports to accommodate multiple Russian spacecraft and provide fuel transfer capability to the Nauka module.

To make room for Prichal, the recently relocated, uncrewed Progress 78 cargo craft will undock from Nauka at 6:21 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 25, and follow a path to burn up upon reentry in the Earth’s atmosphere.

The modified Progress transport spacecraft that will guide Prichal to the station will detach from Prichal in late December and burn up during re-entry over the Pacific Ocean.

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