Russia says it's planning to launch Prichal module to ISS in November

Roscosmos, Russia’s space agency, is planning to launch the Prichal node module to the International Space Station (ISS) on November 24, Roscosmos head Dmitry Rogozin announced via Twitter.

"We are preliminary planning a launch of another module, a node one (Prichal), to the ISS on November 24. It will help us to expand opportunities for docking of our spacecraft with the station, including the new Orel lunar module," he noted.

The node module will attach itself to the Nauka multi-functional laboratory module which docked with the ISS on Thursday. Earlier, Rogozin told reporters at the Mission Control Center that the space agency would analyse the problems that emerged during the Nauka launch and would take them into account during the fall launch of the node module.

The International Space Station (ISS) crew is resting, everything is fine aboard the station now, head of Russia’s space agency, Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin noted.

"It’s fine aboard the ISS. The crew is resting. I recommend you do the same," he wrote on Twitter.

After the Nauka module docked with the ISS, its thrusters suddenly turned on at 19:45 Moscow time and rotated the station’s normal orientation by 45 degrees.

Roscosmos told TASS that the Nauka module was being switched into ‘docked with the ISS’ mode. Remaining fuel in the module is also being dealt with.