Zvezda

Overview

Zvezda, the Service Module, provided the early ISS with life support, crew quarters, and propulsion, and was the structural heart of the Russian segment.

Knowledge connections

• Part of stationInternational Space Station
• Operated byRoscosmos
• Built byRoscosmos

Sources

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• NASANational Aeronautics and Space Administration

  Mission data, planetary science, space telescopes, and public-domain imagery.

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• RoscosmosState Space Corporation Roscosmos

  Russian crewed and robotic spaceflight history and programs.