On the Baikonur cosmodrome, the preparation of the Transport Cargo Ship “Progress MS-18” of the development and production of Rocket and Space Corporation “Energy” named after S.P. Queen (part of the state corporation “Roskosmos”) to launch under the program of the 79th Mission of Supply of the International Space Station.
Today, October 22, 2021, the MS-18 Progress Cargo Ship in the space head unit was prepared for transportation on a common assembly with a carrier rocket. Roskosmos specialists held a horizontal position cant in a horizontal position, fulfilled its loading in a special car and sent to the installation and test case of the site No. 31.
Start of the Soyuz-2.1A carrier missile with the MS-18 Progress Cargo Ship is scheduled for the end of October 2021 from the Baikonur cosmodrome.