At Baikonur Cosmodrome the preparation of the "Progress MS-14" cargo ship for launch under the International Space Station program continues.

At the Baikonur Cosmodrome, specialists at the Yuzhny Space Center and the RSC "Energia" (parts of Roscosmos State Corporation) completed operations on refueling the "Soyuz MS-16" manned spacecraft with fuel components and compressed gases.

Today, on March 26, 2020, at the site № 17 of the Baikonur Cosmodrome in front of the Cosmonaut Hotel, a ceremony was held to raise the flags of the countries, participating in the launch of the "Soyuz MS-16" manned spacecraft.

At the Baikonur cosmodrome, the final stage of preparation of the main and backup crews of the "Soyuz MS-16" manned spacecraft for flight under the program of the 63rd main expedition to the International Space Station has begun.

On the morning of March 24, 2020, the ceremony of seeing off the main and backup crews of the 63rd long expedition to the International Space Station, departing to the Baikonur Cosmodrome, took place at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center. The members of the main crew are Anatoly Ivanishin, Ivan Wagner, Christopher Cassidy, their backups: Sergey Ryzhikov, Andrey Babkin and Stephen Bowen. A few hours later they arrived at Baikonur to complete the prelaunch preparations.

The "Soyuz-2.1b" launch vehicle with the "Fregat" upper stage and 34 satellites of the OneWeb communications system was successfully launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on March 21, 2020 at 20:06 (Moscow time).

At the Baikonur Cosmodrome, a joint team of specialists from the RSC "Energia" and The Yuzhny Space Center (parts of Roscosmos State Corporation) completed the leak test of the "Soyuz MS-16" manned spacecraft in the vacuum chamber at the Assembly and Testing building of site № 254.

Specialists of the RSC "Energia" (part of the Roskosmos State Corporation), in accordance with the pre-flight test schedule at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, continues to work with the "Soyuz MS-16" manned spacecraft.

On February 07 at 00.42 (Moscow time) "Soyuz-2.1b" rocketr with OneWeb telecommunication satellites was successfully launched from Baikonur.

In accordance with the decision of the State Commission this morning, February 3, 2020, the "Soyuz-2.1b" launch vehicle with the "Fregat-M" upper stage and OneWeb British communications satellites was rolled out from the Assembly and Testing building and installed at the launch pad № 31 of the Baikonur Cosmodrome.