TsENKI (Center for Operation of Ground-Based Space Infrastructure)

New Capabilities

Led pad repair effort

Russia hasn't sent a spacecraft to the ISS since November 27, when a 22-ton service cabin crashed into the flame trench at Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan — the only pad for Russian crewed and cargo flights. On March 22, a Soyuz-2.1a rocket carrying Progress MS-33 lifted off from the repaired pad, restoring supply lines severed for 115 days.

Updated May 30