Russia Creates New System For Spacecraft To Dock With ISS - Without Ukrainian Components

Russia Creates New System for Spacecraft to Dock With ISS - Without Ukrainian Components

Production and ground tests of the new system for Russian spacecraft to dock with the International Space Station (ISS), which will not use components manufactured in Ukraine, have been completed, according to the Russian Space Systems company's website.

MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 08th January, 2019) Production and ground tests of the new system for Russian spacecraft to dock with the International Space Station (ISS), which will not use components manufactured in Ukraine, have been completed, according to the Russian Space Systems company's website.

"In 2018, the Research Institute of Precision Instruments [part of the Russian Space Systems holding company of the Roscosmos space corporation] completed production and successfully conducted acceptance tests of the new Kurs-MKP digital equipment. This is an advanced system for docking of manned and cargo spacecraft to the Russian segment of the ISS," the company said.