 |  ISS resupply Soyuz launch aborted seconds before liftoff
 11 February 2018
The Soyuz-2.1A rocket with Progress MS-08 cargo spacecraft has failed to blast off
from Baikonur at appointed time, the Sputnik correspondent reported from the
Cosmodrome. A source told Sputnik that the spacecraft launch was postponed to the
reserve date, February 13. The Progress MS-08 freighter was set for the launch atop
the Soyuz-2.1a rocket to reach the International Space Station (ISS) under a new
scheme in around three hours after circling the Earth only twice. For decades,
spaceships with crew and cargo typically flew for about 50 hours before reaching the
ISS. In 2013, Russia introduced a six-hour route to the ISS, involving four orbits.
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