The International Space Station with the Zvezda Service Module, which provides living quarters and performs some life support system functions. Credit: NASA The Zvezda Service Module was the first fully Russian contribution to the International Space Station and served as the early cornerstone for the first human habitation of the station. It was launched atop a Proton rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
The module provides station living quarters, life support systems, electrical power distribution, data processing systems, flight control systems and propulsion systems. It also provides a communications system that includes remote command capabilities from ground flight controllers. It also provides a docking port for Russian Soyuz and Progress spacecraft as well as the European Automated Transfer Vehicle.
|Launch date||July 12, 2000|
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