According to Anatoly Perminov, the head of the Russian Federal Space Agency Roscosmos, Russia is to launch the Oka-T orbital laboratory in 2015. The laboratory spacecraft would serve as a free floating laboratory for experiments on space technologies and material sciences in the environment of microgravity, for the crews of the International Space Station (ISS). The autonomous Oka-T spacecraft would fly alongside the International Space Station docking only to replace or maintaining research equipment, bring on supplies or transmit laboratory results.
