Two cargo ships - Progress MS-19 and Progress MS-21 - will fly to the ISS on a two-day schedule, said Rafail Murtazin, head of the Ballistics Department of RSC Energia
MOSCOW, February 8. /tass/. Both flights of the Soyuz MS manned spacecraft to the ISS in 2022 will take place according to a two-turn approach scheme (about three hours). This was reported to TASS by the head of the ballistics department of the Rocket and Space Corporation Energia (part of Roscosmos), Rafail Murtazin.
"We want to launch two manned Soyuz spacecraft to the ISS using a two-turn scheme," Murtazin said.
According to him, two cargo ships - Progress MS-19 and Progress MS-21 - will fly to the ISS on a two-day scheme, and Progress MS-20 - on a four-turn (about six hours).
Earlier, Roscosmos reported that the first manned launch in 2022 (Soyuz MS-21) is scheduled for 18:55 Moscow time on March 18, the second (Soyuz MS-22) - 16:54 Moscow Time on September 21. The first Progress MS-19 cargo ship in 2022 will go into orbit on February 15 at 07:25 Moscow time, Progress MS-20 will be launched on June 3 at 12:33 Moscow Time, and Progress MS-21 will be launched on October 26 at 03:19 Moscow time.