The
rocket took off with a Progress MS-10 spacecraft at 18:14 GMT
(00:14 local time) carrying supplies to the International Space
Station (ISS).
The Progress MS-10 is expected to dock at the ISS on Nov. 18,
Russia's space agency said.
The last manned mission to the ISS was abruptly cut short on
Oct. 11 two minutes after liftoff when the Soyuz-FG rocket
failed, forcing a Russian cosmonaut and U.S. astronaut to
perform an emergency landing.
The rocket failure was caused by a sensor that was damaged
during assembly at the Soviet era-cosmodrome at Baikonur,
according to Russian investigators.
The first manned mission to the ISS since the failure is due to
take off at the beginning of December.
(Reporting by Tom Balmforth and Maxim Rodionov; Editing by Peter
Graff)
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