Trucks with debris of the Soyuz-FG launch vehicle have departed from the Kazakh city of Zhezqazghan and are expected to arrive at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the night to be later sent to the Russian city of Samara, a source in the rocket and space industry told Sputnik on Saturday.
MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 13th October, 2018) Trucks with debris of the Soyuz-FG launch vehicle have departed from the Kazakh city of Zhezqazghan and are expected to arrive at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the night to be later sent to the Russian city of Samara, a source in the rocket and space industry told Sputnik on Saturday.
On Thursday, an accident occurred minutes after the liftoff of a Soyuz-FG launch vehicle carrying the Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft with two new members of the International Space Station (ISS) crew on board. An emergency escape capsule allowed the crew to return to Earth safely.
"The found fragments of the launch vehicle, which may be of interest to the members of the emergency commission and the investigation, have been put on flatbed trucks, and the convoy with the wreckage of the rocket has already left Zhezqazghan for Baikonur. In the middle of the night, the convoy is expected to arrive at the cosmodrome," the source said.
It is planned that a cargo plane will arrive from Samara to Baikonur on Sunday. The fragments of the rocket will then be loaded into the plane and transported to Samara for examination.
The Thursday incident became the first failure of a manned space launch in modern Russian history. The crash is being investigated by a special commission of Russia's space agency Roscosmos. All manned launches from Baikonur Cosmodrome have been suspended until the commission finds out the causes of the failure.
