Today at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, in the assembly and test building of site 31, the general assembly of the Soyuz-2.1a launch vehicle with the Soyuz MS-26 manned spacecraft was completed. Specialists from Roscosmos State Corporation successfully completed all the necessary assembly stages.
The State Commission approved that on September 8, the rocket can be taken out and installed at the launch complex of site 31. The launch of the Soyuz-2.1a rocket with the Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft is scheduled for September 11 at 19:23:20 Moscow time.
The Soyuz-2.1a launch vehicle features images dedicated to the 130th anniversary of the Rocket and Space Center Progress and the 650th anniversary of the city of Kirov.
The crew of the Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft includes Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Wagner, as well as NASA astronaut Donald Pettit. The launch vehicle was manufactured by the Rocket and Space Center Progress, and the manned spacecraft was manufactured by the Rocket and Space Corporation Energia named after S.P. Korolev, both structures are part of Roscosmos.
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