The Russian company "Roscosmos" canceled the following launch of the "Soyuz" rocket to the ISS, scheduled for December 21, 2025. The rationale was an accident on the Baikonur cosmodrome, the place the launch pad was broken.
Resulting from critical harm to the launch pad on the Baikonur Cosmodrome, brought on by the autumn of the service cabin, the Russian company "Roscosmos" will cancel the following launch to the ISS of the "Soyuz" rocket with the "Progress" cargo ship, suspending it indefinitely. This was reported by RTVI, writes UNN.
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The cancellation of the following launch, scheduled for December 21, 2025, was reported by RTVI, citing two sources within the house trade.
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The accident on the cosmodrome occurred on November 27 in the course of the launch of the Soyuz-2.1a launch car with a manned mission on the Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft. After the rocket launch, the service cabin of web site 31 collapsed into the fuel exhaust tray beneath the launch pad. Because of this, Russia is briefly unable to hold out manned and cargo launches to the ISS.
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The choice to postpone was confirmed by one in all RTVI's interlocutors.
Sure, the launch of "Progress MS-33" on December 21, 2025, is not going to happen. The one query is to what actual date in 2026 it can ultimately be postponed
– mentioned the interlocutor.
One other supply of the TV channel claims that, regardless of the accident, Russia is not going to scale back funds to Kazakhstan for the lease of Baikonur, which quantity to 115 million {dollars} per 12 months.
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