RCC "Progress" has suspended the Assembly of the rocket "Soyuz-2" in the background of the pandemic

the Assembly of carrier rockets “Soyuz-2” was suspended for a period of self-isolation because of the pandemic of coronavirus, said the CEO of the company Dmitry Baranov.

“of”Soyuz-2″ – our main carrier, Assembly work was stopped because of us about 12 carriers is four spaceports”, – he told on air “Russia-24”.

Besides, according to him, about 40 rockets are in the pipeline for storage in the enterprise.

Baranov said that the missile tests did not stop. However, the company has reduced the number of workers from 16700 to several hundred.