Roscosmos: a new system for rendezvous and docking of spacecraft is being developed
A fundamentally new system for rendezvous and docking of spacecraft is being developed at the Scientific Research Institute of Precision Instruments (SRI TP), which allows to combat parasitic signals when ships dock to the International Space Station (ISS), Roscosmos says .
"This is the biggest "scourge" for us. It was with the "parasites" that they fought even at the stage of using the "Needle" (the rendezvous system used on Soviet spacecraft - approx. "Tapes.ru"), installing radio protection on ships. But then the approaching objects were relatively simple in configuration, which cannot be said about the modern ISS," said Sergey Medvedev, chief designer of radio engineering systems for mutual measurements of the Research Institute of Technical Technology.
In his opinion, radio systems will remain relevant, since "there will not be as many satellite groupings in lunar and planetary orbits as there are now on near-Earth, which means that global navigation will not provide the required accuracy."
In December, The Washington Post wrote that the American company SpaceX had destroyed the monopoly of Roscosmos on the delivery of people to the ISS, but the head of NASA, Bill Nelson, hopes to continue effective cooperation on this project with Russia.
In the same month, the Russian Cosmos magazine cited a statement by the head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, according to which the state corporation plans to launch the Zeus nuclear tug into space by 2030.
