Soyuz

OneWeb’s remaining Soyuz launches were planned from Baikonur and were in question beyond the next launch scheduled for 2022-03-04.

Arianespace suspended all Soyuz launches operated by Arianespace and Starsem in a 2022-03-04 news release.

NASA has previously paid as much as $86,000,000 per seat for Soyuz seats in direct contracts with Roscosmos.

OneWeb has launched 428 of a planned 648 broadband satellites aboard Soyuz rockets under a 19-launch contract with Arianespace of Évry, France.

OneWeb announced on 2022-03-03 that it would stop using Russia’s Soyuz rocket.

Roscosmos demanded that OneWeb guarantee by 1:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on 2022-03-04 that its satellites will not be used for military purposes or the Soyuz-2.1b rocket would be removed from the pad.

Arianespace has a contract with OneWeb to launch its constellation and has deployed 428 of the planned 648 satellites on Soyuz rockets over 13 missions since February 2019.

OneWeb planned a 2022-03-04 launch of 36 satellites on a Soyuz rocket.

Arianespace has performed 13 Soyuz missions for OneWeb across launch sites in Kazakhstan, Russia, and French Guiana.

South Korea plans to launch the CAS500-2 remote sensing satellite in the first half of 2024 on a Russian Soyuz rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei is scheduled to return to Earth on the Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft currently docked to the International Space Station on 2022-03-30.

Roscosmos identified the 2022-03-04 Soyuz launch as the first commercial launch from Baikonur in 2022.

OneWeb planned to launch the second half of its constellation on Soyuz rockets from Kazakhstan in 2022.

The latest batch of 36 OneWeb satellites is at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan where Arianespace planned to launch them on a Russian Soyuz rocket as soon as 2022-03-04.

Arianespace has deployed OneWeb satellites using Soyuz rockets from Kazakhstan, Russia, and French Guiana.

Russia withdrew 87 employees of several Russian companies that support Soyuz launches in French Guiana, which will delay a planned April launch of two Galileo navigation satellites.

Russia’s space agency halted cooperation with Europe on Soyuz launches from French Guiana on 2022-02-26 in response to European sanctions over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Roscosmos cleared the Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket for rollout and installation at the Baikonur launch pad on 2022-03-02 and scheduled the launch for 2022-03-04 at 22:41 UTC.