Roscosmos will need about a month to accelerate the dispatch of the Soyuz recovery craft to the ISS to replace the damaged Soyuz MS-22, but no decision has yet been made on this. DEA Newsciting a knowledgeable source.
Formerly Roscosmos knowledgeableif necessary, the Soyuz MS-23 will be launched to the ISS ahead of schedule.
The source said that after the accident on Soyuz MS-22, decisions on expedited preparations for sending Soyuz MS-23 to the International Space Station have not yet been taken.
“If the decision is made, the preparation time of the ship can be reduced to 1 month,” the source said.
He added that there are currently two ships in Baikonur: Soyuz MS-23 and Soyuz MS-24.
On December 15, Russian cosmonauts Sergei Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin were unable to leave the International Space Station. Roskosmos explained this with technical problems with the Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft docked with the station. What is known about the problems on the ISS – in the motherbeer “socialbites.ca”.