The State Commission explained the reason for canceling the launch of the Soyuz rocket with the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft. This was reported by RIA NewsReferring to the statement of the Director General of the Roscosmos state corporation Yuri Borisov.
According to his information, the cancellation was caused by a voltage drop in the chemical current source. Borisov emphasized that the Soyuz MS-25 crew was healthy and the astronauts handled the emergency professionally.
Thus, the rocket launch was postponed to 15:36 Moscow time on Saturday, March 23.
Before that, it was known that the Soyuz rocket was launched together with the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft. It is cancelled. Cosmonauts from around the world, including the first Belarusian cosmonaut, were expected to take off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and reach the International Space Station (ISS).
According to historian Alexander Zheleznyakov, the launch of the Soyuz-2.1a rocket with the crew was canceled in the countdown phase dead For the first time in Russian manned space exploration.
Previously NASA named The reason why the launch of the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft was postponed.