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"Soujz TMA-16" fill with fuel components. / September 21, 2009 /

At the cosmodrome Baikonur works on preparation for launch of the piloted ship «Soujz TMA-16» proceed.

Works on preparation of the ship for start-up are led in a round-the-clock mode.

At night the ship has been transported from the integration and test case of a platform 254 on a filling station of a platform 31 where refuelling by components of fuel and the compressed gases of impellent installation of the ship has this morning begun.

In the integration and test case of a platform 112 cosmodromes accounts of the enterprises of space branch of Russia execute «package» assemblage — to the second step of a carrier rocket four blocks of the first step are joined.

The Press-services of Roskosmos and Design Bureau «Southern»

Source: www.roscosmos.ru

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