Rafail Murtazin, head of the ballistics department at Energia Rocket and Space Corporation (part of Roscosmos), said that specialists will continue to work out a single-orbit flight scheme to the International Space Station (ISS) during the launch of the Progress MS-20 cargo spacecraft in the summer of 2022. It is reported by TASS.

“We will prepare the conditions for carrying out a four-orbit rendezvous scheme for the Progress MS-20, and against its background we will work out the elements of a single-orbit scheme,” Murtazin said.

Earlier it became known that Russia plans to launch two Soyuz manned spacecraft and three Progress cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station next year.

On March 18, 2022, the launch of the Soyuz MS-21 spacecraft with Russian cosmonauts Oleg Artemiev, Denis Matveev and Sergey Korsakov is scheduled, and on September 21, the Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft with Sergey Prokopyev, Anna Kikina and Dmitry Petelin is scheduled to launch.

The launch of Progress MS-19 is to take place on February 15, Progress MS-20 on June 3, and Progress MS-21 on October 26.

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