In accordance with a comprehensive schedule of work on the Baikonur cosmodrome under the program of launching a transport cargo ship “Progress MS-18”, a mechanical assembly of the “package” (1 and 2 steps) of the carrier missile “Soyuz-2.1 was completed to the Russian segment of the International Space Station A “.
All operations are performed by specialists of subsidiaries of the state corporation “Roskosmos”: the South Space Center (branch of the center of exploitation of landflowing infrastructure) and the Progress Rocket and Space Center. The assembly of the Package was carried out in the installation and test case of the site No. 31 of the Baikonur cosmodrome. The next stage of technological events is to carry out pneumatic tests of the side blocks of the carrier rocket.
Start of the Soyuz-2.1A carrier missile with the “Progress MS-18” cargo ship is scheduled for October 28, 2021 from the starting complex “East” platform number 31 of the Baikonur cosmodrome.