2021–Present: Lunar Return, New Stations and Deep-Space Science
Nauka and Prichal
Major Russian ISS-segment additions after Mir; not standalone deep-space exploration missions.
Era 6 of 6 · full record in the catalog
- Launch
- 24 Nov 2021
- Lead / partner
- Russia
- Target
- International Space Station
- Category
- Space-station infrastructure
- Status
- Success
- Vehicle
- unknown
- Mass
- unknown
- Orbit / trajectory
- unknown
Why it happened
Nauka and Prichal flew during 2021–Present: Lunar Return, New Stations and Deep-Space Science, as part of Russia's work toward international space station. A sourced write-up of the context around this mission is still on the editorial queue; nothing here is invented to fill the gap.
The mission
The full narrative of this mission is pending research and writing. What is recorded so far: Major Russian ISS-segment additions after Mir; not standalone deep-space exploration missions.
Results
Major Russian ISS-segment additions after Mir; not standalone deep-space exploration missions.
Related missions
Sources & image credits
- Image credit: NASA · license: public-domain (source, checked 2026-08-23)
- Mission record: AntarikshPedia canonical dataset (data-sources/missions_timeline.md)
- Specifications reference: NASA NSSDCA Master Catalog