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RSC EnergiaZvezda Mission
7/12/2000
NASA engineers are reviewing the analysis of other segments of the ISS based on observations of the cracks in the Zvezda module.
The initial goal of the Zvezda network was to construct three SIGINT sites.
The Zvezda site in Yakovlevka and the site in Irkutsk are still active.
Military Unit 51428 is the headquarters of the Zvezda network in Moscow's Shcholkovo region.
The annexation of Crimea in 2014 allowed the establishment of a new Zvezda facility in Sevastopol.
The Ventspils site was chosen to build one of the first Zvezda sites close to the western border of the USSR.
The Zvezda TV report described the December 4, 2024 mission as the final launch from Plesetsk before the end of 2024.
A Zvezda TV report stated that launch preparations for the Plesetsk mission took more than a month and involved more than 400 people.
As of February 12, 2024, NASA's advisory stated the Progress spacecraft would be placed into an orbit for a two-day journey to the space station culminating in an automatic docking at 1:12 a.m. on February 17, 2024 UTC at the aft port of the Zvezda service module.