Docking with the ISS of the Progress MS-18 spacecraft, which will launch the launch vehicle, is expected on October 30
MOSCOW, October 18. /tass/. The launch of the Soyuz-2.1a launch vehicle, which will launch the Progress MS-18 cargo ship into orbit, is scheduled for 03:00 Moscow Time on October 28. This is stated in the message of Roscosmos, distributed on Monday.
"In accordance with the plan of spacecraft launches for 2021 within the framework of the Federal Space Program of Russia for 2016-2025, on October 28, 2021 at 03:00 Moscow time (reserve date - October 29), the launch of a space rocket as part of the Soyuz-2 launch vehicle is planned.1a" and the Progress MS-18 transport cargo ship from the Baikonur cosmodrome," the message reads.
The spacecraft is expected to dock with the ISS on October 30.
Earlier, the state corporation posted on its website photos of the package of the first and second stages of the rocket, they showed stickers with Khokhloma patterns, which originated in the village of the same name, which is now part of the Nizhny Novgorod region. The rocket also bears symbols in honor of the 800th anniversary of Nizhny Novgorod.
Alexander Agureev, head of the ISS Crew Nutrition Department at the Institute of Biomedical Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences, told TASS that it is planned to send food kits to Progress MS-18, including for the New Year's table.
