Soyuz

The goal is to have the seat exchange agreement in place to allow Russian cosmonaut Anna Kikina to fly on Crew-5 launching in September and a NASA astronaut to fly on Soyuz MS-22 launching in September.

Pyotr Dubrov and Mark Vande Hei spent 355 days in space on the mission that launched last April on Soyuz MS-18.

Arianespace is seeking alternative rides for five missions for European institutional customers that were to launch on Soyuz from French Guiana.

The Russian decision to halt Soyuz launches from French Guiana is complicating efforts to move the Sentinel-1C launch forward.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine halted six Soyuz launches that OneWeb was counting on to complete its 648‑satellite constellation in 2022.

Russia has suspended Soyuz launches as a result of the conflict.

The European Space Agency is evaluating options for launching missions originally planned for Russia’s Soyuz rocket, including non-European rockets and early use of Ariane 6.

Russia’s 2022-02-26 decision to halt Soyuz launches from French Guiana put five European missions in limbo, including two Galileo navigation satellite launches, ESA’s Euclid space observatory, the EarthCARE Earth science satellite, and a French reconnaissance satellite.

Using one of the former Soyuz missions on the first Ariane 6 flight could delay that Ariane 6 launch.

OneWeb paused satellite deployment on 2022-03-03 after deciding to stop using Russia’s Soyuz rocket amid the war in Ukraine.

Soyuz MS-21 will launch to the International Space Station on 2022-03-18, carrying three Russian cosmonauts.

Europe’s Galileo navigation constellation had two pairs of satellites (Galileo 29,30 and Galileo 30,31) scheduled for Soyuz ST-B launches from the Guiana Space Centre in 2022.

OneWeb purchased eight of the 10 Soyuz missions that Soyuz flew for non-Russian customers in 2021 (all but two).

OneWeb planned to deploy its final six batches of satellites by midyear using Soyuz rockets.

Roscosmos Director General Dmitry Rogozin offered to allocate Soyuz-2 rockets booked for OneWeb to private Russian space companies for launching domestic spacecraft.

EUMETSAT planned to launch the first Metop-SG weather satellite (Metop-SG A-1) with Soyuz ST-B from French Guiana in 2024 and had two additional Metop satellites penciled for 2025 and 2031 using a combination of Soyuz and Ariane 6.

OneWeb suspended six remaining Soyuz launches on 2022-03-03 to seek non-Russian launch alternatives following Russia’s war in Ukraine.

OneWeb secured an insurance policy worth more than $1,000,000,000 on 2022-09-02 to cover 10 remaining Soyuz launches for its constellation at that time.