Moscow. September 16. INTERFAX - The undocking of the Progress MS-17 transport cargo ship from the Poisk module is scheduled for October 23, after two days of autonomous flight, the truck will be re-connected to the Nauka module, Roscosmos reported.
"From July 2, 2021 to the present, the Russian" truck "has been docked to the small research module" Poisk", its undocking is scheduled for October 23. After two days of autonomous flight, it will automatically dock to the node of the Nauka module, " the message says.
This operation will make it possible to prepare the laboratory module for the arrival of the new Berth node module on the ISS.
"Now there is a special adapter (ring-pad) located at the docking node of the Nauka module, which allows the Russian Soyuz MS and Progress MS ships to dock, so the Progress MS-17 cargo ship will take it with it when it is finally undocked with the station. After such a two-stage check, the Berth module will be docked to the docking node, the launch of which is scheduled for the end of November this year," Roscosmos reported.
