Docking Compartment
A docking compartment is a module of a space station to which visiting spacecraft can dock. Docking Compartment may refer to: * Docking Compartment 1 (Pirs) * Docking Compartment 2 (Poisk) See also

* Mini-Research Module (other), Mini-Research Modules * Mir Docking Module {{SIA Components of the International Space Station ...
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Docking Compartment 1
''Pirs'' ''(russian: Пирс'', meaning "pier") – also called Stykovochny Otsek 1 (SO-1; russian: Стыковочный отсек, "docking module") and DC-1 (Docking Compartment 1) – was a Russian module on the International Space Station (ISS). ''Pirs'' was launched on 14 September 2001, and was located on the ''Zvezda (ISS module), Zvezda'' module of the station. It provided the ISS with one Spacecraft docking and berthing mechanisms, docking port for Soyuz (spacecraft), Soyuz and Progress (spacecraft), Progress spacecraft, and allowed egress and ingress for Extra-vehicular activity, spacewalks by Astronaut, cosmonauts using Russian Orlan space suits. ''Pirs'' was docked to ''Zvezda'' for almost 20 years, until 26 July 2021, where it was decommissioned and undocked by Progress MS-16 to make way for the new ''Nauka (ISS module), Nauka'' module. Poisk module A second docking compartment, Stykovochniy Otsek 2 (SO-2), was planned with the same design. However, when the ...
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Docking Compartment 2
''Poisk'' (russian: Поиск, , Search), also known as the Mini-Research Module 2 (MRM 2), , or ''МИМ 2'', is a docking module of the International Space Station. Its original name was Docking Module 2 (, SO-2), as it is almost identical to the ''Pirs'' Docking Compartment. Added in 2009, ''Poisk'' was the first major Russian addition to the International Space Station since 2001. ''Poisk'' is overall the same design as the docking module ''Pirs''. Whereas ''Pirs'' had been attached to the nadir ("bottom") port of ''Zvezda'', ''Poisk'' is attached to the zenith ("top"); ''Pirs'' was closer to the Earth with the ISS in its usual orientation, and ''Poisk'' is on the other side. ''Poisk'' is Russian for ''explore'' or ''search''. ''Poisk'' combines various docking, EVA, and science capabilities. It has two egress hatches for EVAs in addition to the two spacecraft docking ports. Although ''Poisk'' is designated as Mini-Research Module 2, it arrived before Mini-Research Modul ...
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Mini-Research Module (other)
A Mini-Research Module (MRM; russian: Малый исследовательский модуль, , MIM) is one of the two pressurised modules of the Russian Orbital Segment of the International Space Station. They are the following: * ''Poisk'' (MRM-2) * ''Rassvet'' (MRM-1) See also * Research station Research stations are facilities where scientific investigation, collection, analysis and experimentation occurs. A research station is a facility that is built for the purpose of conducting scientific research. There are also many types of resear ...

Mir Docking Module
The Stykovochnyy Otsek (russian: стыковочный отсек, en, Docking compartment), GRAU index 316GK, otherwise known as the ''Mir'' docking module or SO, was the sixth module of the Russian space station ''Mir'', launched in November 1995 aboard the . The module, built by RKK Energia, was designed to help simplify space shuttle dockings to ''Mir'' during the Shuttle-''Mir'' programme, preventing the need for the periodic relocation of the ''Kristall'' module necessary for dockings prior to the compartment's arrival. The module was also used to transport two new photovoltaic arrays to the station, as a mounting point for external experiments, and as a storage module when not in use for dockings. Development The docking module originated in the 1992 design version of the cancelled ''Mir''-2 space station, which featured a combined docking compartment and airlock to facilitate docking missions during the Soviet ''Buran'' space shuttle programme (this module, SO-1, ...
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