The flight of a female cosmonaut from Belarus, scheduled for the fall of 2023, may be delayed due to the situation on the Soyuz MS-22 manned spacecraft, whose radiator was damaged in December last year. It has been reported TASS With reference to Roscosmos.
The flight of the first cosmonaut of the Republic of Belarus with the Russian manned spacecraft Soyuz MS will take place as planned. it can slide to the right.”
Specific flight dates specified in Roskosmos will be confirmed later.
On the eve of Joel Montalbano, head of the American program of the International Space Station (ISS) declarationNASA shares the position of the Roscosmos company on the causes of the accident on the Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft. He also noted that NASA will soon adjust its future flight schedule to the ISS, taking into account what happened to the Soyuz.
Yuri Borisov, former CEO of Roskosmos saidThe version of the technical damage was not confirmed, in which the radiator of the Soyuz MS-22 cooling system was damaged by the occasional meteor strike. Borisov also stated that the damaged ship would return to Earth in unmanned mode without a crew.