The Soyuz-2.1b launch vehicle pneumatic tests have been completed at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in accordance with the operational schedule. Tightness checks of all rocket stages continued for three days in the Site 31 assembly and testing facility of the technical complex.
Currently, specialists from the Yuzhny Space Center (a branch of the Center for Ground-Based Space Infrastructure Facilities Operation) and the Progress Rocket and Space Center (part of Roscosmos) are assembling the test pattern, checking the onboard fueling level measurement system, as well as conducting autonomous tests of the measurement systems.
The Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket with the Progress M-UM cargo spacecraft module is scheduled to launch on November 24, 2021. The Prichal Node Module is designed to enhance the technical and operational capabilities of the Russian segment of the International Space Station. The module docks to the nadir node of the Nauka Multipurpose Laboratory Module.