BAIKONUR COSMODROME, March 21 Reason for canceling the launch of the rocket with the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft and three cosmonauts — a voltage drop in the chemical current source, Roscosmos head Yuri Borisov told reporters.
«At the final stage of pre-launch preparation, an emergency situation occurred and the entire procedure was interrupted. The reason was identified. Now we have just found out at a meeting of the state commission that the reason was a voltage drop in the chemical current source,» Borisov said.
The launch of the Soyuz-2.1a rocket with the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft from Baikonur was scheduled for 16.21 Moscow time March 21. The launch was canceled approximately 20 seconds before liftoff.
The main crew of the ship included Russian Oleg Novitsky, Belarusian Marina Vasilevskaya and American Tracy Dyson. Vasilevskaya is expected to become the first woman in the history of Belarus to travel into space.
It was originally planned that Novitsky and Vasilevskaya would spend 12 days on the ISS and return to Earth on the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft, now docked to the station, along with the American Loral O'Hara, who arrived on it on September 15, 2023. Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub who arrived with her will spend more than a year at the station and return with Dyson on the Soyuz MS-25.
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