Soyuz

The Soyuz-2.1a rocket lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 1:45 a.m. Eastern on 2020-10-14.

NASA officials were in talks with Roscosmos about potentially purchasing a second Soyuz seat for a mission launching in spring 2021.

The Soyuz MS-17 spacecraft launched to the International Space Station on 2020-10-14.

NASA purchased a final Soyuz seat from Roscosmos in May for $90,250,000 to add Kate Rubins to the crew.

The Soyuz MS-17 spacecraft performed an ultra-fast two-orbit approach and docked with the ISS Rassvet module at 4:48 a.m. Eastern on 2020-10-14.

The Soyuz MS-17 spacecraft carrying NASA astronaut Kate Rubins and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov is scheduled to launch at 1:45 a.m. Eastern on 2020-10-14 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and dock with the International Space Station approximately three hours later.

OneWeb announced on 2020-09-21 that it had a revised contract with Arianespace to permit launches of its satellites on Soyuz rockets to resume in December.

The NetSat mission launched on 2020-09-28 on a Russian Soyuz rocket.

Arianespace and OneWeb executed a revised launch contract on 2020-09-21 that allows OneWeb launches to resume in December using Soyuz rockets.

Spire flew four three-unit cubesats on the Soyuz-2.1b launch, two equipped with intersatellite crosslinks and two equipped with advanced onboard computing to enable machine learning algorithms.

A Soyuz spacecraft is scheduled to launch 2020-10-14 with NASA astronaut Kate Rubins and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov on board.

The Soyuz currently at the station is scheduled to undock 2020-10-21 to return Chris Cassidy, Anatoly Ivanishin, and Ivan Vagner.

NASA moved the Crew-1 Crew Dragon launch from 2020-10-23 to 2020-10-31 to deconflict it with Soyuz launch and landing operations and to provide more time to ensure closure of all open work on the ground and aboard the station.

OneWeb revised a contract with Arianespace on 2020-09-21 to resume launches using 16 Soyuz rockets over a two-year period starting in December.

The International Space Station crew boarded their docked Soyuz spacecraft for a time on 2020-09-22 as a precaution during the debris event.

Arianespace will conduct 16 Soyuz launches for OneWeb, each carrying 34–36 satellites, to complete OneWeb’s internet megaconstellation by the end of 2022.

Two of the 16 Soyuz launches for OneWeb will take place from the Guiana Space Centre in French Guiana.

Jeanette Epps was scheduled to launch in mid-2018 on a Soyuz spacecraft with Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency and Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos.