At the end of a long flight of approximately 50 and a half hours, the Soyuz must dock Monday afternoon with the Pritchal module, itself attached to the Naouka module docked with the Russian segment of the International Space Station.
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A Russian Soyuz spacecraft, with the first Belarusian cosmonaut in history, Marina Vassilevskaïa, on board, successfully took off on Saturday March 23 towards the International Space Station (ISS) from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, announced the Russian space agency Roscosmos. The latter also specified that putting the vessel into orbit “went as planned.”
At the end of a long flight of around 50 and a half hours, the Soyuz must dock Monday afternoon with the Pritchal module, itself attached to the Naouka module docked with the Russian segment of the International Space Station, according to Roscosmos .
Takeoff postponed
Initially scheduled for Thursday, the takeoff of the Soyuz spacecraft was canceled at the last moment while the rocket was on the launch pad, and postponed until Saturday. According to Roscomos boss Yuri Borissov, the cause of the cancellation of the first takeoff was linked to “a drop in voltage of the chemical current source” of the Soyuz.
This postponement represented a new setback for the Russian space sector, which has been struggling for years due to financing problems, corruption scandals and failures such as the loss of the Luna-25 lunar probe in August 2023.
