Russia ready for the first launch of Soyuz at ISS since the accident

A Russian Soyuz rocket with a freighter is due to take off on Friday for the first launch of the International Space Station (ISS) since an accident last month.

"The Mission Control Center has completed the work planned for the launch of the Progress MS 10 cargo. The launch of the Soyuz-FG rocket is scheduled for 18:14 GMT," said the Russian Space Agency Roscosmos in a statement.

The launch from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan is considered a rehearsal event for the next inhabited trip, scheduled for December 3rd.

This flight will transport Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques and Anne McClain of NASA bound for the ISS.

Russia, the only country to be able The astronauts of the ferry that went to the space station have suspended all their launches after the failure of a Soyuz rocket on October 11, a few minutes after takeoff.

This was the first incident of this type in the history of travel in the post-Soviet space.

Launch, Russian cosmonaut Alek Sey Ovchinin and American astronaut Nick Hague made an emergency landing and escaped unharmed.

NASA had planned to launch its own supply ship Thursday, but it was delayed until the weekend due to poor weather conditions. It takes about 48 hours to arrive at the ISS, carrying fuel, oxygen, water and scientific equipment.

A commission charged with investigating the October 11 accident announced that the flight had been interrupted because part of the sensor had been damaged during badembly.

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