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Experts of Roscosmos enterprises have finished the installation of assembly technical equipment necessary for carrier rocket reception in the carrier rocket room of assembly, integration, and test building, in the block storage, and in the transborder gallery of Vostochny cosmodrome technical complex. The experts of the Center for Operation of Space Ground-Based Infrastructure have already assembled the systems of uninterrupted power supply, technological fire-fighting, and compressed gases and rotary cable service towers. In the storage of carrier rocket blocks, the gas system is ready; the unique equipment in the transborder gallery has also been assembled. The next stage will consist in commissioning and autonomous tests of the installed systems.

At the moment, the experts of the Center for Operation of Space Ground-Based Infrastructure have started the installation of the ground-based equipment and checking facilities in the laboratory building of the carrier rocket assembly, integration, and test building.

The assembly of 29 systems, needed to launch carrier rockets, continues at the launch complex, 12 of them have already been installed and submitted for commissioning. Five systems (the launch system, the cable-fuelling tower, the upper cable-fuelling tower, the uninterrupted power supply system, and the service cabin) have successfully undergone commissioning, and are prepared for autonomous tests.

Additionally, the sheeting of a unique object – the mobile service tower (MST) – has started at Vostochny cosmodrome. The external façade of the MST will be sheeted with shaped sheets and will correspond to the color pattern of all the objects of Vostochny cosmodrome, which are white and blue. In parallel, the experts have installed an elevator and are coating the roof.

The mobile service tower is the tallest structure of Vostochny cosmodrome, its height being 52 meters. The MST’s weight is almost 1,600 tons. In the history of Russia’s cosmonautics, this unique vertical structure is the first. The mobile tower is designed for the pre-launch processing of Soyuz-2-type ILV rockets. It will be transported within the launch complex by two rails, on four trolleys. The rail track length is around 100 meters, and the tower will travel on a speed of about 20 meters per minute.