The pre-flight preparation of the Transport Cargo Ship “Progress MS-18” continues on the Baikonur cosmodrome to launch under the program of the 79th Logistics Mission of the International Space Station.
Today, October 22, 2021, in the installation and test building site No. 254 Specialists of the Roskosmos Roskosto-space corporation and specialists of Roscosmos were conducted by the author’s inspection of the Progress MS-18 cargo ship and fulfilled a complex of technological operations for the head fairing . After checking the startup readiness, the ship in the composition of the cosmic head will be allowed to transport to the overall assembly with the carrier rocket in the installation and test case of the site number 31.
Start of the Soyuz-2.1A carrier missile with the MS-18 Progress Cargo Ship is scheduled for the end of October 2021 from the Baikonur cosmodrome.