Progress MS-26 and Soyuz MS-25 spacecrafts, which had been in storage since December 2023, have been deconserved at Baikonur.
It is known that the manned Soyuz MS-25 will soon undergo testing of service equipment and a series of comprehensive electrical tests at the cosmodrome. The Rodnik system will be prepared for the ISS crew on the Progress MS-26 space truck, and its tanks will be filled with drinking water.
The launch of the Soyuz-2.1a carrier rocket with the Progress MS-26 spacecraft is scheduled for February 15.
Soyuz MS-25 will go to the ISS in March. Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky, the first female cosmonaut from Belarus Marina Vasilevskaya, and NASA astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson will travel to the ISS on it. After twelve days, Novitsky and Vasilevskaya will return to Earth on Soyuz MS-24 together with NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara. Tracy Caldwell Dyson will remain on the ISS.