Soyuz

A second pair of Galileo navigation satellites was scheduled to launch later in 2022 on another Soyuz from French Guiana.

The French government expected to launch its CSO-3 reconnaissance satellite on a Soyuz in early 2023.

The European Space Agency planned to launch the EarthCARE Earth science mission on a Soyuz in 2023 in cooperation with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).

The European Space Agency planned to launch the Euclid infrared space telescope on a Soyuz in 2023.

A Soyuz rocket is scheduled to launch a new pair of Galileo GNSS satellites for the EU Agency for the Space Programme from Europe’s Guiana Space Centre in French Guiana in the second quarter of 2022.

At the time after 2014, Soyuz was NASA’s only means of transporting astronauts to the International Space Station while NASA sought congressional funding for the Commercial Crew Program.

In response to sanctions after the 2014 annexation of Crimea, Dmitry Rogozin threatened to deny NASA access to Soyuz seats and to halt exports of RD-180 rocket engines.

A Soyuz spacecraft with three Russian cosmonauts was scheduled to launch on 2022-03-18.

The 2022-02-10 Soyuz launch carried 34 satellites for OneWeb’s low Earth orbit broadband network.

The 2022-02-10 launch was Arianespace’s second Soyuz mission launched from the Guiana Space Center for OneWeb.

Arianespace exceeded 100 satellites launched on Soyuz from the Guiana Space Centre, reaching 101 Soyuz-launched satellites after Flight VS27.

Nikolai Chub is assigned to the backup crew for Soyuz MS-22 launching to the International Space Station in fall 2022 and to the prime crew for Soyuz MS-23 to the station in spring 2023.

The servicer and client satellites have been in low Earth orbit since they were launched together on a Soyuz rocket on 2022-03-22.

A viable business case to continue Soyuz launches from French Guiana beyond 2023 would require at least two, and preferably three or more, such missions per year.

A first Galileo launch carrying satellites from a previous order will occur in 2021 and a second Soyuz launch in the first half of 2022 will orbit the first two satellites from the latest EUSPA order.

Soyuz flight ST37 launched from Russia’s Baikonur Cosmodrome on 2021-12-27 at 06:10 p.m. local time (01:10 p.m. UTC).

The ST37 launch was the first time Soyuz delivered 36 satellites instead of the usual 34 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.

Following manufacturing and launch vehicle integration improvements, a Soyuz rocket delivered 36 satellites from the Baikonur Cosmodrome for the first time instead of the usual 34.