Soyuz

European Space Agency astronaut Andreas Mogensen is the pilot for Crew-7 and previously flew to the International Space Station on a Soyuz in 2015 for a 10-day mission.

Andreas Mogensen was selected as an ESA astronaut in 2009 and became the first Danish citizen in space during a 10-day Soyuz mission to the space station in 2015.

Luna-25 launched on a Soyuz-2.1b rocket from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia’s Far East on 2023-08-10.

Roscosmos launched Luna-25 on a Soyuz-2.1b rocket from the Vostochny Cosmodrome on 2023-08-10.

Europe lost access to Russia’s Soyuz rocket launches from Kourou after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

Soyuz MS-22 suffered a coolant leak in December 2022 that led Roscosmos to replace the spacecraft by launching an uncrewed Soyuz MS-23 in February 2023 and return Soyuz MS-22 without a crew.

Soyuz MS-24 will be the first crewed Soyuz mission since Soyuz MS-22 in September 2022.

Soyuz MS-24 is scheduled to launch 2023-09-15 to bring Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub and NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara to the station.

LEO 2 was built by SFL in partnership with Maxar Technologies and was one of 19 satellites lost in the 2017 Russian Soyuz launch failure.

ESA originally planned to launch Euclid on a Soyuz rocket but switched to Falcon 9 due to the unavailability of the Soyuz vehicle.

ESA chose to launch Euclid on a Falcon 9 under a contract with SpaceX after losing access to the Soyuz rocket following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

ESA originally planned to launch Euclid on a Soyuz rocket from the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, French Guiana.

ESA began studies in the summer of 2022 to assess Euclid’s compatibility with Falcon 9 after the spacecraft had been designed for Soyuz.

Dennis Tito paid about $20,000,000 to fly to the International Space Station on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft in 2001.

Apogeo used a Russian Soyuz 2.1 rocket to launch its first Flexible Experimental Embedded Satellite (FEES) demonstrator in 2021.

LEO 2, built by Space Flight Laboratory in partnership with Space Systems/Loral (now owned by Maxar Technologies), was one of 19 satellites lost in a 2017 Russian Soyuz launch failure.

Soyuz MS-23 launched without a crew in February to replace Soyuz MS-22 and is operating normally.

Arianespace had planned to deploy OneWeb’s remaining satellites with Soyuz rockets before that contract was scrapped following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.