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A view shows the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft following its launch cancellation at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, March 21, 2024. /Reuters
A problem that forced the last-minute cancellation of a crew launch to the International Space Station has been successfully resolved, and the mission is now scheduled to take off on Saturday and dock with the ISS on Monday, Russian officials said.
The launch of the Soyuz spacecraft carrying Russian Oleg Novitsky, Belarusian Marina Vasilevskaya and American Tracy Dyson was aborted seconds before lift-off on Thursday due to what Russian space agency Roscosmos described as a problem with a chemical power source.
Roscosmos chief Yuri Borisov informed Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko on Friday that the issue had been solved and expressed confidence in a successful launch on Saturday, the Belarusian state news agency Belta reported.
Roscosmos has stated the Soyuz will dock with the ISS at 1510 GMT on Monday. Novitsky and Vasilevskaya will return to Earth on April 6 with Loral O'Hara, a U.S. astronaut currently aboard the orbital station.
The launch site is the Baikonur cosmodrome in the steppe of Kazakhstan.