Soyuz

NASA plans to obtain the Soyuz MS-18 seat through an exchange of in-kind services rather than a direct purchase, an arrangement believed to involve commercial spaceflight company Axiom Space.

Representatives Frank Lucas (R-Okla.) and Brian Babin (R-Texas) sent a 2021-02-23 letter to Steve Jurczyk requesting a briefing on NASA’s plans to obtain the Soyuz MS-18 seat.

NASA announced on 2021-02-09 that it was working to obtain a seat on Soyuz MS-18, scheduled for launch 2021-04-09, to travel to the International Space Station.

NASA published a sources sought procurement filing as a necessary step to identify alternative arrangements before concluding the Soyuz MS-18 seat deal, with a response deadline of 2021-02-19.

South Korea will launch a mid-sized satellite on Russia’s Soyuz rocket in March from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to monitor urban areas and topographical features and to design maps.

Spaceflight executed its first launch in 2013 aboard a Soyuz vehicle.

The Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft is scheduled to launch to the International Space Station on 2021-04-10.

NASA issued a procurement solicitation proposing to fly a NASA astronaut on Soyuz MS-18 using in-kind services rather than a cash payment, and the request for sources closed on 2021-02-19.

NASA is seeking to obtain one of the three seats on the 2021-04-10 Soyuz mission for an astronaut in exchange for in-kind services rather than purchasing the seat.

Hiber Three was scheduled to launch on a Soyuz rocket in March 2021.

Astroscale will launch the space debris removal demonstration satellite ELSA-d on 2021-03-20 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on a Soyuz rocket provided by GK Launch Services.

A Soyuz mission is scheduled to launch to the International Space Station on 2021-04-10 to carry three Russian cosmonauts.

Hiber planned to launch Hiber Three in March 2021 on a Soyuz rocket.

Soyuz MS-18 was scheduled to launch around 2021-04-10 to bring three Russian cosmonauts to the station.

Space Adventures and Roscosmos have contracts for two dedicated commercial Soyuz flights, with the first scheduled for December and the second planned for June 2023.

Glavkosmos plans the first dedicated commercial flight to be Soyuz MS-23 in the fall of 2022 to the International Space Station, with a second dedicated flight expected in 2023.

Space Adventures announced in 2019 that it would purchase a dedicated Soyuz flight to the ISS carrying two customers and one professional astronaut.

ELSA-d will launch on a Soyuz rocket operated by GK Launch Services.