Soyuz

The approved primary crew is scheduled to launch to the International Space Station on Soyuz MS-16 on 2020-04-09.

Nick Hague launched on a second Soyuz mission to the International Space Station in March 2019 with Alexey Ovchinin and NASA astronaut Christina Koch.

NASA astronaut Nick Hague launched on Soyuz MS-10 in October 2018 with Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin.

NASA planned to negotiate with Roscosmos for additional Soyuz seats in case commercial crew providers could not enter service in 2020.

OneWeb launched 34 small broadband satellites on a Soyuz rocket in February 2019 as the start of regular launch campaigns toward an initial constellation of 650 satellites.

Astroscale contracted with Glavkosmos to launch ELSA-d on a Soyuz mission slated for the second half of the year.

The 34 satellites on the Soyuz launch will join six French-built OneWeb satellites launched the previous February.

The Soyuz upper stage used a dispenser supplied by Ruag Space to release the satellites at 450 km.

A Soyuz launch provided by Arianespace carrying 34 OneWeb satellites was scheduled to lift off from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 4:42 p.m. EST.

The number of OneWeb satellites launched per Soyuz mission depends on the launch site: launches from French Guiana or Kazakhstan carry 34 satellites while launches from Vostochny Cosmodrome carry 36 satellites.

Arianespace is launching the majority of OneWeb’s first-generation constellation using Soyuz rockets from Europe’s Guiana Space Center and Russia’s Baikonur and Vostochny Cosmodromes.

Counting the February launch, OneWeb plans to conduct a total of 17 or 18 Soyuz launches and one Ariane 6 launch with Arianespace to orbit 588 satellites before the end of next year.

A Soyuz rocket launched 34 small broadband satellites for OneWeb from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

Reaching 588 satellites is expected to require 17 or 18 more Soyuz launches plus one Ariane 6 mission.

Momentus will deploy a SteamJet 1.5-unit cubesat on its Vigoride demonstration mission scheduled to launch later 2020 on a Russian Soyuz rocket.

AAC Clyde Space built NSLSat-1, which launched last year on a Soyuz rocket.

OneWeb has secured rides to orbit for roughly 720 satellites with Arianespace on 20 Soyuz rockets and the inaugural flight of the Ariane 6 planned for late 2020.

The Falcon Eye 2 mission will be Arianespace’s first Soyuz launch of the year and will take place from Europe’s spaceport in French Guiana.