Russia delays launch of replacement Soyuz to March

Russia has pushed the launch of its next Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) into March, a delay of a few weeks. Soyuz vehicles are designed to carry astronauts, but this one, known as MS-23, will launch in an uncrewed state. It will be a replacement for the Soyuz MS-22 craft, which sprang a leak on Dec. 14 and lost all of its coolant to space, a problem that Russia's space agency Roscosmos traced to a likely micrometeoroid strike. More

(Source: Space.com - Feb 17)