Damaged Soyuz spacecraft's replacement arrives at International Space Station

A Soyuz spacecraft with no crew onboard arrived at International Space Station on Saturday at 7:58 PM EST to replace anor Soyuz that experienced damages. According to Space News, Soyuz reached ISS after it launched from Kazakhstan's Baikonur Cosmodrome at 7:24 PM on Thursday.

Russian spacecraft's mission was to deliver supplies weighing 946 pounds to International Space Station. It is a replacement for Soyuz MS-22 that encountered a riator coolant leak in December last year. old spacecraft successfully transported Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin and NASA astronaut Frank Rubio to space station in September last year.

trio is slated to return to our home planet later this year on new Soyuz MS-23. Meanwhile, damaged spacecraft will be undocked from station towards end of March and will he back to earth with an uncrewed parachute landing in Kazakhstan. After landing, Russia's Roscosmos will be conducting a post-flight evaluation of it. 

What is Soyuz? 

Soyuz is a kind of spacecraft that was originally constructed by Soviet Union in 1960s under Vostok program that aimed to carry out human spaceflight operations. It has, since n, served Russian space agencies for several missions such as transporting astronauts, launching robotic equipment, and performing research.

Soyuz is launched by being affixed to a Soyuz rocket. For landing back to earth, it relies on parachutes and mostly lands in steppes of Kazakhstan. modern spacecraft is versatile and reliable, and comes to great use for human spaceflight missions.