Assembly of the scientific and power module (SPM) for the International Space Station is planned to be completed in 2019.

      

      It was stated in the annual report of the leading Russian space rocket enterprise, the S.P.Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia for 2015.

      

      "A draft project of SPM was approved in 2015. Presently detailed design of both the scientific and power module in general and its components is performed, and production of separate parts and aggregates is carried out. The works are planned to be completed in 2019" — the document reads.

      

      Useful life of the module makes 15 years. The module is planned to be delivered to the International Space Station by means of the Proton-M rocket.