A botched Soyuz launch has dealt significant damage to Russia’s Baikonur Cosmodrome spaceport in Kazakhstan, leaving the nation without the ability to launch astronauts to the International Space Station until repairs are completed.

The November 27 launch saw the Soyuz MS-28 crew and spacecraft successfully travel to the aging orbital outpost. However, as NASASpaceflight reports, drone footage shows the platform’s mobile maintenance cabin lying upside down inside the flame trench, an enormous concrete-lined ditch to redirect the rocket’s flames, suggesting it slid off the platform and plummeted down to its demise.

Russia’s space agency, Roscosmos, later confirmed “damage to a number of elements of the launchpad,” in a statement.

“An assessment of the state of the launch complex is being

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