The new APAS became the default docking port for NPO Energia projects and was included in plans for Buran, the Mir-2 space station, and the reusable Zarya capsule.
The later APAS became the default docking port for NPO Energia projects and was included in plans for Buran, the Mir-2 space station, and the reusable Zarya capsule.
Russian cosmonauts discovered new surface cracks in the Zarya module in August 2021.
The Multi-Purpose Laboratory Module, later named Nauka, was built using FGB-2, the structural spare of the Zarya module.
Rassvet launched on May 14, 2010 and berthed to Zarya’s nadir port four days later.
The Scientific and Technical Council of the Ministry of General Machine Building and the USSR Academy of Sciences recognized the need to stop Zarya work on October 5, 1989.
Zarya work stopped in January 1989 because of insufficient funding.
Zarya used 24 main landing engines and 16 orientation thrusters for propulsive landing in the Kazakh steppe.
Konstantin Feoktistov was the project lead for Zarya.
The Zarya crew module had a diameter of 3.7 meters and a launch mass of around 15 tonnes.
Department 178 of NPO Energia, headed by I.L. Minyuk, was tasked with Zarya development.
Preliminary estimates for Mir-2 required two Zarya flights per year, three Progress M2 vehicles, and one to two Buran orbiters.
Zarya was planned to carry between two and eight crew members and cargo to Mir and back.
The Zarya-derived Assured Crew Return Vehicle had a launch mass of 12.5 tonnes, seated eight crew, and consisted of a descent module, a transition compartment, and a service module.
Baikonur Site 45 includes a Manned Spacecraft Servicing Unit built to service the Zarya-Zenit stack.
Valentin Glushko personally supervised the Zarya project at NPO Energia.
The Zarya spacecraft was designed to use the Zenit launch vehicle.
Zarya was also known by the GRAU designation 14F70 and Energia internal project code 7K-SM.
Zarya could be configured for uncrewed cargo missions, payload return missions, rescue missions, and specialized Ministry of Defense and Academy of Science missions.
The Soviet Military Industrial Commission approved Zarya development in a January 27, 1985 resolution.