Preparations for the launch of the Soyuz MS-11 piloted spacecraft began on Monday at the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan despite the failed launch of the Soyuz-FG carrier rocket on October 11, a Baikonur source told Sputnik.
BAIKONUR (Kazakhstan) (Pakistan Point news / Sputnik - 15th October, 2018) Preparations for the launch of the Soyuz MS-11 piloted spacecraft began on Monday at the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan despite the failed launch of the Soyuz-FG carrier rocket on October 11, a Baikonur source told Sputnik.
"Today, the employees of the Energia space corporation and its subsidiary, the Experimental Engineering Plant, began to perform a set of technological operations in preparation for the launch of the Soyuz MS-11 manned spacecraft," the source said.
According to the source, the experts are checking the current status of the spacecraft's systems and performing the testing of their performance.