[FPSPACE] Mystery spacecraft mockup at Star City

[Robert Law]

Is this possibily a mock up of the proposed new vehicle to eventuly replace soyuz ?
 
 
  Robert
David Anderman <davida at cwo.com> wrote:
Once again, ESA has released an image of an astronaut in front of a
trainer at Star City that is somewhat mysterious:



This spacecraft has an APAS or Hybrid docking adaptor. If it is a Pirs
mockup, the only Hybrid adaptor at Pirs is male, not female. Moreover, the
antennas fitted to end of the mockup represent Kurs passive, and the Kurs
passive end of Pirs has a standard probe and cone system, not APAS or
Hybrid.

There is no other Russian spacecraft that comes close to resembling this
mockup, and since there are few spacecraft with APAS or Hybrid docking
adaptors, what is this?

DWA

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