The Service Module was the first fully Russian contribution to the International Space Station and serves as the early cornerstone for the first human habitation of the station.
Image at right: The International Space Station with the Zvezda Service Module, which provides living quarters and performs some life support system functions.
Image at left: ISS Flight Control Room (Requires Flash Player)
The module provides the early station living quarters, life support system, electrical power distribution, data processing system, flight control system and propulsion system. It also provides a communications system that includes remote command capabilities from ground flight controllers. Although many of these systems are being supplemented or replaced by U.S. station components, the Service Module will always remain the structural and functional center of the Russian segment of the International Space Station.
Zvezda
Overview | Weight: | 19,051
kilograms (42,000 pounds) | Launch
Window: | 10
minutes |
Wingspan: | 29.7
meters (97.5 feet) | Docking: | July
25, 2000, 7:45 p.m. CDT | Length: | 13.1
meters
(43 feet) | Launch
to Docking: | 13
days,
19 hours,
49 minutes | Launch: | July
11, 2000,
11:56 p.m. CDT | Altitude: | 440
kilometers (240 nautical miles) | Vehicle: | Russian
Proton Rocket | Inclination: | 51.6
degrees | Launch
Site: | Baikonur
Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan | | |
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