MOSCOW, March 21 Automation canceled the launch of the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft to the ISS a few moments before the launch «with a Russian-Belarusian-American crew, said the host of the NASA broadcast.
«The countdown went flawlessly until about -20 seconds. <…> The cable-mast moved away from the rocket, but the expected inclusion of the engines at this moment did not happened and the automatic system canceled the launch,” the announcer said.
The launch of the Soyuz-2.1a rocket with the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft was scheduled for 16:21 Moscow time.
As told the head of Roscosmos, Yuri Borisov, the procedure was interrupted due to a “voltage drop in the chemical current source.”
The head of the state corporation clarified that everything was fine with the crew; Belarusian cosmonaut Marina Vasilevskaya’s pulse did not even increase.
Start moved to 15:36 Moscow time on March 23.
The main crew included Russian Oleg Novitsky, Marina Vasilevskaya and American Tracy Dyson. Vasilevskaya could become the first woman in the history of her country to be in space.
It was planned that Novitsky and Vasilevskaya would spend 12 days on the ISS and on April 2 return to Earth on the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft together with the American Loral O'Hara , arriving on September 15, 2023. Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub, who are at the station, will spend more than a year in space and return with Dyson on the Soyuz MS-25.
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