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Three more launches are planned to be carried out before the end of this year
The Soyuz-FG carrier rocket with the Progress MS-10 cargo spaceship blasted off from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan at 21:14 Moscow time on Friday
The manned spacecraft Soyuz MS-08 carrying the crew of three astronauts, has been placed into orbit and is heading to the International Space Station
Shortly after liftoff, the Soyuz’s booster malfunctioned, forcing the crew to abort the mission and make a ballistic descent
The space rocket’s functions demonstrated their reliability during the emergency landing of the manned Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft, MS-10 Commander Alexei Ovchinin says
The Falcon 9 carrier rocket was launched from the space facility at Cape Canaveral, Florida
The launch was at 11:46 Moscow time
Currently the ISS has a crew of three — Roscosmos’s Sergei Prokopiev, NASA’s Serena Aunon-Chancellor and the European Space Agency’s Alexander Gerst
Russia expects the US to show understanding regarding the Soyuz carrier rocket failure at the Baikonur Cosmodrome
The rocket will blast off on March 14