Now aerospace industry enterprises are actively working on the creation of the Russian Orbital Station (ROS). Its transportation and technical support is planned to be performed with the help of a promising manned transport vehicle (MTV). This means that the GCTC should prepare cosmonauts to work on the new generation of equipment.
The new complex simulator is assembled from autonomous components. Already created and tested such elements as control and control panel systems: power supply, psychophysiological control, fire simulation, maintenance of temperature conditions, as well as a doctor’s console and repair-technological communication.
One of the most important elements of the future simulator is being tested now – the operators’ workplace, which is a mock-up of the reentry vehicle MTV. The MTV operator’s workplace is a frame-modular construction. Now it is already possible to visually observe the appearance of the reentry vehicle of the manned transport spacecraft.
The spacecraft was originally designed for flights to the Moon orbit, so its structural and strength characteristics allow it to withstand higher thermal and dynamic loads, which are important during the return at the stage of entry into the dense layers of the Earth’s atmosphere at the second space velocity. The new spacecraft provides space for four crew members for normal flight and can accommodate an additional two crew members in case of an emergency.
“And we can say that the MTV is one of the newest spacecraft, which embody the most modern and time-tested: it is onboard computing facilities, life support system, the possibility of sensor control, high accuracy of landing, required safety and reliability”, – said Oleg Blinov, chief specialist in technical means of cosmonaut training simulator control.
A unique feature of the new simulator is the creation of convenient positioning of the operator in space by tilting the command compartment by 30 degrees relative to the horizon.
At the beginning of the next year, specialists plan to equip the MTV simulator with a computing complex, which will make it possible to practice primary skills in working with control and management bodies, with the help of which the crew controls onboard systems, movement and orientation in manual mode, sets modes and monitors the state of the spacecraft.
The task until June 2025 is to create an MTV simulator in the configuration of 10 systems for practicing the basic flight modes of unmanned MTV. And then the complex will be finalized to prepare astronauts for manned flight. A fully integrated simulator of a new-generation manned transportation spacecraft should be ready for crew training no later than a year before the launch of the real spacecraft.
