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.

he Russian members of the main crew of the "Soyuz MS-16" manned spacecraft, Roscosmos cosmonauts NikolaY Tikhonov and Andrey Babkin, will be replaced by backups due to medical reasons.

Work continues on the evacuation of fragments of the "Soyuz-2.1b" launch vehicle, which successfully launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on February 7, 2020.

According to ISS flight program Soyuz MS-13 crew comprising commander Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov, Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano and NASA female astronaut Christina Koch successfully landed in Kazakhstan.

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.

At the Vostochny cosmodrome specialists from the Vostochny Space Center together with the Progress RSC (parts of Roscosmos State Corporation) completed the cycle of mechanical assembly of the “package” (stages 1 and 2) of another "Soyuz 2.1b" rocket in accordance with the schedule.

Specialists of the Vostochny Space Center together with the RSC "Progress"(parts of the Roscosmos State Corporation) on January 10, 2020, began preparing the components of "Soyuz-2.1b" launch vehicles.

Today, on December 18, 2019, at 11:54 (Moscow time) from the launch pad of the Guiana Space Center, the "Soyuz-ST-A" launch vehicle with the "Fregat-M" upper stage and the COSMO-SG and CHEOPS European satellites and with three commercial satellites was successfully launched.

In the Guiana Space Center the "Soyuz-ST-A" launch vehicle with the "Fregat-M" upper stage and commercial spacecrafts on board was rolled out to the launch pad.

The manned spacecraft "Soyuz MS-16" was delivered to the Baikonur Cosmodrome for pre-flight preparation.