The head of Roskosmos said that in November the nodal module “ Berth & # 39; & # 39; will go to the International Space Station. He wrote about it on Twitter and Telegram.
“ As a preliminary, on November 24, we plan to launch another module on the ISS & mdash; nodal (& bdquo; Berth & ldquo;). We have it between us & bdquo; ball & ldquo; we call. This will allow us to expand the berthing possibilities with the station of our ships, including the new & bdquo; lunar & ldquo; ship & bdquo; Eagle & ldquo; & raquo ;, & mdash; said in the post of Dmitry Rogozin .
Universal nodal module & # 39; Berth & # 39; & mdash; one of the planned modules of the Russian segment of the ISS, which is to dock with the Nauka Multipurpose Lab Module, docked at the station the day before. It was made by RSC Energia and the shape really looks like a ball, which has six mooring nodes to receive and place around it other modules and spaceships & mdash; Manned unions and the progress of freight. One of the mooring knots will be transformable.
Diameter of the spherical shell of the module “ Berth & # 39; & # 39; & mdash; 3.3 meters, sealed volume & mdash; 19 cubic meters. Its mass at launch will be 4,750 kilograms, and after joining the structure of the ISS – & mdash; 3890 kilograms.
Factory assembly and control tests of the nodal module “ Berth & # 39; & # 39; were produced in 2014, since it has been stored at RSC Energia in Korolev near Moscow.