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MOSCOW, November 16. / TAX /. The Russian Soyuz-FG carrier rocket with the Progress MS-10 space freighter will take off from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan on Friday, for the first time since the interrupted launch in mid-October.
“The Progress MS-10 cargo spacecraft will depart on November 16, at 9:14 pm Moscow time. The spacecraft will dock with the International Space Station (ISS) at 10:29 pm Moscow time, on the 18th. November, “the Central Research Institute of Machine-Building (TsNIImash) said.
The spacecraft will dock at the Zvezda module to carry approximately 2.5 tons of cargo, including pressurized fuel, water and gas. The launch was insured for a sum of 3.245 billion rubles (48 million dollars).
The Soyuz-FG carrier rocket with a manned Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft took off from Kazakhstan’s Baikonur Cosmodrome to the International Space Station (ISS) on 11 October. On board the spacecraft were Russian cosmonaut Alexei Ovchinin (the commander of the Soyuz MS-10) and NASA astronaut Nick Hague.
After a smooth take-off, the Soyuz booster malfunctioned between the first and second stages of the separation, after which the crew was forced to abort the flight and switch to ballistic descent. The manned Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft ended up landing safely in the Kazakh steppe. The crew was not injured. This was the first emergency situation with the launch of a manned spacecraft in the past 35 years.
The accident investigation commission announced on November 1 that the emergency situation occurred after “a nozzle cover on the oxidizer tank did not open due to deformation of the separation contact sensor.”
The sensor was damaged during the assembly of the rocket’s first stage at the Baikonur Cosmodrome.
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