[Regnum] The manned spacecraft Soyuz MS-25, launched on March 23 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, separated from the third stage of the Soyuz-2.1a launch vehicle and entered orbit.
A crew including the first Belarusian cosmonaut Marina Vasilevskaya, cosmonaut of the Roscosmos state corporation Oleg Novitsky and NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson went to the International Space Station on the ship. The flight to the ISS will follow a two-day rendezvous scheme; the expected time of docking of the spacecraft with the universal node module of the Russian segment of the ISS is March 25, 18:10 Moscow time.
As Regnum reported, on March 21, the launch of the Soyuz-2.1a launch vehicle with the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft, which was supposed to fly to the ISS, was canceled at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. During the broadcast, it became known about the automatic cancellation and return of the launch complex units to their original state. The launch was canceled after a five-minute readiness announcement.
The head of Roscosmos, Yuri Borisov, said that the next launch from Baikonur will take place on March 23. He clarified that the cancellation occurred due to a voltage drop in the chemical current source, which occurred abnormally during pre-launch preparations.
Cosmonautics historian Alexander Zheleznyakov said on March 21 that this is the first time in Russian cosmonautics that a crewed rocket launch has been canceled during the five-minute readiness period before launch. At the same time, he clarified that such incidents have occurred in unmanned astronautics.