On Friday, October 15, 2021, in accordance with a comprehensive schedule for the preparation of the Transport Cargo Ship “Progress MS-18” on the Baikonur cosmodrome, the pneumatic testing of the Soyuz-2.1A carrier rocket was completed. Checks on the tightness of all three steps continued for four days in the installation and test case of the technical complex of the site number 31.
Specialists of the South Space Center (branch of the center of exploitation of landflowing infrastructure) and the Progress Rocket Center (Both are included in the perimeter of the Roskosmos perimeter) at work. The next stage of preparation is to carry out autonomous testing of the on-board system of rocket carrier.
Running the Transport Cargo Ship “Progress MS-18” is scheduled for October 28, 2021 from the starting complex “East” platform number 31 of the Baikonur cosmodrome.