This morning, the uncrewed Soyuz blasted off to the International Space Station to replace a spacecraft with a coolant leak.
Video: ƝASA/Roscosmos
The launch took place at 3:24 a.m. on February 24, local time, or 7:24 a.m. the same day, Hanoi time from the Russian Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Soyuz MS-23 rescue ship is scheduled to dock with the ISS on February 25.
“A perfect orbital flight of Soyuz MS-23! The vehicle will return Russian cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin as well as NASA astronaut Frank Rubio (Expedition 69 crew) to Earth at the end of this year”NASA spokesman Rob Navias said during a live commentary of the launch.
The launch and docking of the new Soyuz comes during a very busy week for ISS operations, as SpaceX’s Crew-6 Crew Dragon spacecraft will also launch four astronauts to the ISS for NASA on the 27th. May and should arrive after about 24 hours. .
The problems with the three members of the Expedition 69 crew began on December 14 after Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft on the ISS leaked coolant but The cause is believed to be a collision with a small meteorite. Although the incident did not pose an immediate threat to the ISS or its operations, the Russian space agency Roscosmos determined that a new Soyuz was needed to replace the leaking MS-22.
The Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft departs for the International Space Station (ISS).
The Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft departs for the International Space Station (ISS).
The launch schedule of the rescue ship has encountered many problems. Initially, the Soyuz MS-23 was scheduled to fly in late spring with a full crew, but Roscosmos pushed the schedule back to February 19 and decided to launch the ship without a crew. Instead, he was carrying nearly 1,000 pounds of supplies and a teddy bear as a weightlessness indicator.
Soyuz MS-23 flight continued to be adjusted after a day another coolant leak on the ISS on February 11. Initially, Roscosmos planned to postpone the launch until March in case the two leaks were linked, but ultimately pushed the launch date back to February 24. Roscosmos officials determined that both ships had coolant leaks due to two different meteorite impacts.
The International Space Station was launched in 1998, at a time when Russia and the United States were intensifying cooperation after “space race” during the Cold War. To this day, space still remains a rare place for cooperation between these two countries since Russia attacked Ukraine and was the subject of Western sanctions.
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