New ISS module Prichal to be launched from Baikonur on Wednesday

The launch is scheduled for 16:06:36 Mosow time

Russia’s new nodal module Prichal will be launched to the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday, the press service of the Russian state-run space corporation Roscosmos has told TASS.

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"In accordance with the Russian flight schedule of the International Space Station, the launch of the Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket with the Progress M-UM space freighter and the Prichal nodal module is scheduled for November 24, 2021," the organization said.

The launch is scheduled for 16:06:36 Mosow time. The upper stage, comprising the spacecraft and the module, will separate from the third stage approximately night minutes after the liftoff. The journey to the ISS will take two days. The docking with Russia’s multipurpose laboratory module Nauka is expected at 18:25 Moscow time on November 26.

Currently, the docking slot of the Nauka module is occupied by the Progress MS-17 space freighter. Its undocking is due at 14:18 Moscow time on November 25.

Photo: Sergei Savostyanov/TASS.