March 31, 2021

Prelaunch processing of the Soyuz MS-18 crewed spacecraft under the program of Expeditions 65 and 66 to the International Space Station continues at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Today specialists from RSC Energia and enterprises of Roscosmos started filling operations.

Yesterday evening, in accordance with the technical management’s decision, the spacecraft was delivered to the filling station of Site No. 31 to have its propulsion system loaded with compressed gases and propellant components. According to the processing schedule, the filling operations are to be completed on March 29, when the spacecraft returns to the processing facility of Site No. 254 to undergo the final prelaunch processing.

The launch of the Soyuz-2.1a rocket carrying the Soyuz MS-18 to the International Space Station is scheduled for April 9, 2021 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.

More from this category:
June 8, 2019

After passing the theoretical examinations, the ISS-60/61 crews began practical tests on simulators. Today, the commanders of the main and backup crews of the “Soyuz…

full story
January 11, 2020

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…

full story
August 3, 2015

Roscosmos cosmonauts Gennady Padalka and Mikhail Korniyenko will perform a spacewalk scheduled for August. The cosmonauts will polish several windows of Zvezda service module from…

full story
July 4, 2013

Moscow, July 3 – RIA Novosti. Russian resource-P Earth remote sensing satellite launched on June 25, 2013 sent its first test photo shots to the…

full story
February 20, 2014

Cosmonaut Valeri Kubasov twice Hero of the Soviet Union and participant of the famous Apollo-Soyuz program died on Wednesday evening at the age of 79,…

full story
July 25, 2016

On July 25, 1984, Soviet woman-cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya performed her spacewalk spending 3 hours 35 minutes in the open space. She became the first woman…

full story
August 25, 2021

The Express-AM5 satellite operated by the Russian Satellite Communications Company (RSCC) is used in restoring communications and the Internet in the regions of Yakutia affected…

full story
July 22, 2014

Progress M-23M cargo vehicle will undock from the ISS on Tusday and perform the flight to conduct scientific experiment, – Mission Control Centre representative reported….

full story