Footage
Roscosmos, archive. Preparation and launch of the Progress M S-18 transport cargo ship. (2021)
Availability of videosources
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
Needs clarification of possibility of digitizing.
Scene №1
Baikonur, Yuzhny Shopping center.
MIC (assembly and testing building), workshop, installation of the Progress MS-18 spacecraft on the PHO (transition compartment).
Calendar
25.10.2021Locations
Kazakhstan
Space; Space programs
Scene №2
MIC, workshop, specialists are working with the Progress MS-18 ship.
The ship is moved around the workshop by a crane and transferred to a horizontal position.
Specialists remove the protective elements, vacuum the recesses and grooves.
Knurling and fixing of the head fairing.
The verticalization of the spacecraft in the stocks.
Calendar
25.10.2021Locations
Kazakhstan
Space; Space programs
Scene №3
MIC, workshop, general assembly of the Soyuz-2.1a launch vehicle.
Calendar
26.10.2021Locations
Kazakhstan
Space; Space programs
Scene №4
Removal of the rocket from the MIC.
Delivery of the rocket to the launch pad (shooting on the ground and from the copter).
Flags are fluttering in the wind.
Rocket verticalization (shooting from different points, on the ground and from a copter).
Calendar
26.10.2021Locations
Kazakhstan
Space; Space programs
Scene №5
Launch of the Soyuz-2.1a carrier rocket with the Progress M S-18 transport cargo ship (shooting from close and medium plans, from the ground and the copter, cutting).
Calendar
28.10.2021Locations
Kazakhstan
Space; Space programs
Scene №6
Anna Samoylenko's news story about the 11U219 transport and installation unit for the transportation and verticalization of Soyuz series launch vehicles.
Specialists are practicing undocking and removing the rocket from the installer.
Comments on the operation and technical inspection of the unit.
The rocket is on the launch pad.
Calendar
10.2021Locations
Kazakhstan
Space; Space programs