On the starting complex “Vostok” Baikonur comes to completion preparation for the launch of the Soyuz-2.1A launch vehicle with the MS-19 Progress Cargo Ship, which is scheduled for February 15, 2022. Monday – a backup day in the preparation of space rocket.
On the eve of the work on the schedule of the second starting day. The result was general tests – checking the functioning of the systems of the complex with the simulation of the carrier rocket flight to the ship’s separation. Today will be “spilling” – checks on the tightness of the pipelines, which will be performed by refueling the tank of the carrier fuel. In the afternoon – Dewbook in the ship delivered aboard the international space station of equipment.
Tonight, the joint calculation of the Baikonur cosmodrome specialists will begin work on the start-up program. At 03:15 Moscow time on February 15, a meeting of the State Commission will begin, at which test results carried out with a carrier rocket and a cargo ship for three starting days. Commission members will appreciate the readiness of the product to refuel the components of fuel and start at the scheduled time.