Soyuz

Innovative Solutions in Launch, a subsidiary of ISISpace, plans to send the second Royal Thai Air Force satellite into orbit on a Soyuz rocket in 2020.

The satellite is planned for launch on a Soyuz launch in 2020 through ISISpace’s launch services subsidiary ISILaunch.

HTV-8 will arrive at the International Space Station five days after launch to accommodate the 2019-09-25 launch of the Soyuz MS-15 crewed spacecraft.

The H-2B launch of HTV-8 was rescheduled to 12:05 p.m. Eastern on 2019-09-24, which corresponds to 1:05 a.m. on 2019-09-25 local time at Tanegashima Space Center, to avoid a potential close approach between the H-2B upper stage and the Soyuz MS-15 spacecraft launching 2019-09-24.

GK Launch Services is authorized to conclude and implement contracts for launch services using Soyuz-2 family launch vehicles from Russian spaceports.

GK Launch Services is working with Roscosmos to develop a Soyuz 2M variant based on the Soyuz-2.1b without the Fregat upper stage.

The Soyuz 2M variant is expected to cost about $30,000,000 and to place two to three tons into sun-synchronous orbit.

Iceye launched two small SAR satellites on 2019-07-05 on a Russian Soyuz rocket.

Arianespace signed contracts in 2019 to fly auxiliary payloads on Soyuz for Open Cosmos and Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems.

Arianespace conducted seven launches in 2019 and planned to launch as many as four additional satellites on Ariane 5 and Soyuz that year.

Russia launched Soyuz MS-14 without a crew to test using the newer Soyuz-2.1a launch vehicle for future crewed Soyuz missions, replacing the Soyuz-FG vehicle.

Soyuz MS-14 launched on 2019-08-21 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.

The Soyuz MS-13 relocation maneuver was the first Soyuz relocation since August 2015 when Soyuz TMA-16M moved from Poisk to Zvezda.

Cosmonauts will test the FEDOR robot on the International Space Station before returning it to Earth when Soyuz MS-14 undocks on 2019-09-07.

The docking of Soyuz MS-14 enabled the scheduled 2019-08-27 departure of a Dragon cargo spacecraft that had been berthed to the station for about one month.

Soyuz MS-14 docked with the International Space Station on 2019-08-26 nearly 72 hours after aborting its original docking attempt.

Alexander Skvortsov will board Soyuz MS-13 docked to the station’s Zvezda module on 2019-08-26 and manually dock Soyuz MS-13 to the Poisk module to free the Zvezda module’s port for a Soyuz MS-14 docking attempt.

Soyuz MS-14 failed to make an automated docking with the International Space Station on 2019-08-24, remaining about 90 m from the station.

The station’s two Russian cosmonauts overseeing the docking issued a command to abort the docking at 1:36 a.m. Eastern and directed Soyuz MS-14 to move away from the station.