What kind of Prichal module is being launched on the ISS? What is a nodal module.
“Preliminarily, on November 24, we plan to launch one more module on the ISS – the nodal module (Prichal). We call it a “ball” among ourselves. This will allow us to expand the possibilities of docking with the station of our ships, including the new “lunar” spacecraft “Eagle”, “the head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin wrote on his Twitter page.
The “Berth” module should be docked to the “Science” laboratory module. In shape, it really resembles a ball, which has six docking nodes for receiving and placing around it other modules and spaceships – manned Soyuz and cargo Progress. The assembly and factory tests of the Prichal were carried out in 2014, and since then it has been stored at RSC Energia in Korolev, Moscow Region.
