Soyuz

Arianespace will launch two Galileo navigation satellites from Kourou in French Guiana aboard a Soyuz rocket on Thursday, 2021-12-02 (CET).

Two Galileo navigation satellites will be launched from Kourou in French Guiana aboard a Soyuz rocket on Thursday, 2021-12-02 (CET).

The failed OneWeb satellite was one of 34 launched on 2020-02-06 from Kazakhstan aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket.

Early on 2021-11-15, the seven people on the International Space Station were instructed to shelter in their Crew Dragon and Soyuz vehicles for about two hours because of a debris cloud from the Cosmos-1408 breakup.

The Soyuz MS-20 spacecraft is scheduled to launch on 2021-12-08 for a 12-day stay at the International Space Station.

Hazzaa AlMansoori spent a week on the International Space Station after launching on a Soyuz mission in September 2019.

NASA decided not to acquire a seat on the Soyuz MS-21 launching in March 2022.

Space Adventures flew a series of private astronauts to the International Space Station starting in 2001 using open seats on Soyuz missions.

The Soyuz MS-20 spacecraft will launch 2021-12-08 carrying Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa, his production assistant Yozo Hirano, and professional astronaut Alexander Misurkin.

The Soyuz MS-20 spacecraft will spend 12 days at the International Space Station before returning to Earth in that spacecraft.

Space Adventures last flew a customer to the International Space Station in 2009 because Soyuz seats were being used exclusively for crew rotations.

Soyuz MS-18 fired its thrusters at 5:02 a.m. Eastern on 2021-10-15 as a test before departing the station.

The thrusters on Soyuz MS-18 continued firing unexpectedly after the end of the testing window, resulting in a loss of station attitude control at 5:13 a.m. Eastern on 2021-10-15.

Spaceflight participants Yulia Peresild and Klim Shipenko were aboard Soyuz MS-18 after flying to the station on Soyuz MS-19, which launched on 2021-10-05.

Pyotr Dubrov and Mark Vande Hei flew to the station on Soyuz MS-18 with Oleg Novitskiy and will remain on the station until March 2022, spending nearly one year in space.

Soyuz MS-18 undocked from the International Space Station’s Nauka module at 9:14 p.m. Eastern on 2021-10-16.

RUAG Space built the satellite dispenser that serves as an interface between the Soyuz rocket and OneWeb satellites.

Arianespace’s tenth launch of 2021 used the seventh Soyuz rocket launched that year and carried a total payload of approximately 5,797 kg.