Russian Soyuz-FG To Blast Off Baikonur Friday For 1st Time Since Launch Abort - Roscosmos

MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 16th November, 2018) The first launch of the Russian Soyuz-FG booster from the Baikonur Cosmodrome after the failed carrier rocket launch in October is scheduled to be held later on Friday, bringing the Progress MS-10 cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS), the Russian space agency Roscosmos said.

"On November 16, 2018, a launch of the Soyuz-FG rocket carrying a transport cargo spacecraft Progress MS-10 is planned to be held from the station five of the launch pad one of the Baikonur Cosmodrome. The objective of the flight is to bright fuel, food products, water and other cargo items necessary for the use of the station by the manned mission, to the International Space Station," Roscosmos said in a statement published on its website.

The launch is scheduled for 21:14 Moscow time (18:14 GMT). The spacecraft is expected to fly to the ISS for two days and is scheduled to dock to the space outpost at 22:30 Moscow time on Sunday. The cargo spacecraft will be docked to the ISS until March 2019.

On October 11, a Soyuz-FG rocket carrying Russian cosmonaut Alexei Ovchinin and NASA astronaut Nick Hague malfunctioned minutes after the liftoff, sending their capsule into a steep fall back to Earth. They were not harmed. Roscosmos subsequently said that the accident was caused by a sensor failure.