Crew Dragon launch with Russian cosmonaut canceled two minutes before launch
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The launch of the Falcon 9 rocket with the Crew Dragon manned spacecraft was canceled two minutes before liftoff. NASA announced this on Twitter.
“Today’s launch of Crew6 has been canceled due to an issue with ground systems,” the post reads.
The flight to the International Space Station (ISS) was scheduled for 01:45 US East Coast time (09:45 Moscow time). The crew of the spacecraft includes American astronauts Stephen Bowen and Woody Hoburgh, UAE astronaut Sultan Al-Neyadi and Russian cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev. It is assumed that the astronauts will spend six months at the station.
Previous launch of Crew Dragon-6 moved from 26 to 27 February. This decision was made because of the need to complete the pre-launch preparation of the launch vehicle, NASA explained.
In July 2022 Roscosmos and NASA signed an agreement on joint cross-flights to the ISS, according to which the countries will carry out two missions. The first one took place last autumn. In September, the Russian spacecraft Soyuz MS-22 was launched to the ISS, carrying the Russians Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin, as well as NASA astronaut Francisco Rubio. In October, Roscosmos female cosmonaut Anna Kikina arrived at the station on the Crew Dragon-5 spacecraft.
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