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Work on the Service Module, the first fully Russian contribution to the International Space Station planned for a December 1998 launch from Russia, reached a milestone in July as the module's electrical analog was moved to prepare for tests that will simulate the vibrations of launch. A flight-like simulator of the Service Module, the electrical analog was built at Russia's Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center (KhSC) in Moscow and was moved to TsNIMASH, a Russian Space Corporation-Energia (RSC-E) subcontractor in the village of Sergey Posad, near Moscow, for the testing