Roscosmos, archive. Preparation and launch of the Progress M S-18 transport cargo ship (2021)

Baikonur, Yuzhny Shopping center.

MIC (assembly and testing building), workshop, installation of the Progress MS-18 spacecraft on the PHO (transition compartment).

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.

MIC, workshop, general assembly of the Soyuz-2.1a launch vehicle.

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).

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).

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.