Russia Launches Last Module For Its ISS Segment

Maxim Pyadushkin November 24, 2021
Progress’s M-UM cargo capsule lifts off from Baikonur carrying the Prichal module to the ISS.
Credit: Roscosmos
MOSCOW—Twenty-three years after the launch of the first module for the International Space Station (ISS) in 1998, Russia is preparing to complete the construction of its segment with the launch of its last element—the Prichal Node Module. It lifted off atop a Soyuz 2.1b rocket at 8:05 a.m. EDT on...
Maxim Pyadushkin

In addition to writing for Aviation Week Network, Maxim holds a key position at Russia's Air Transport Observer magazine. In the past he was in charge of several ATO’s sister aerospace publications and earlier worked for Moscow-based CAST defense think-tank.

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