Soyuz

Mike Fincke flew on two long-duration International Space Station missions on Soyuz spacecraft in 2004 and 2008–2009.

The Soyuz mission carrying the UAE astronaut was delayed until the fall because of schedule changes to Soyuz missions prompted by the October 2018 Soyuz MS-10 launch failure that aborted that mission to the International Space Station.

ESA considers starting production of Ariane 6 very soon necessary to allow Ariane 6 and Vega C to replace Ariane 5, Soyuz and Vega during a transition period from 2020 to 2023.

During the 2014 Crimea crisis, Dmitry Rogozin threatened to ban exports of RD-180 engines and to deny access to Soyuz seats for flights to the International Space Station.

Those three Arianespace Soyuz launches in 2019 will take place from the Guiana Space Center in French Guiana.

Arianespace won a OneWeb launch contract in 2015 for 21 Soyuz missions and initially planned for most of those missions to take place in Baikonur.

Arianespace launched 11 times in 2018: six Ariane 5 missions, three Soyuz missions, and two Vega missions.

The three missions that did not take place in 2018—the Arabsat-ISRO Ariane 5, OneWeb’s first Soyuz, and the Italian Space Agency’s Vega launch of Prisma—are on Arianespace’s 2019 manifest.

ISL has capacity on Soyuz launches planned through 2021 and will continue cooperation with GK Launch Services.

ISL has launched more than 50 satellites on Soyuz rockets as part of a track record of more than 300 satellites brought to orbit in total.

The Vostochny Cosmodrome hosted its first successful flight of commercial payloads on 2018-12-27 using a Soyuz 2.1A rocket.

Roscosmos is the Russian space agency that builds and launches Soyuz spacecraft.

On 2018-12-03, Sergey Prokopyev and Oleg Kononenko conducted an external inspection of the patched Soyuz hole that involved using a large space knife to stab the spacecraft.

Arianespace completed its final launch of the year on 2018-12-19 by sending the French spy satellite CSO-1 into orbit on a Soyuz ST-A rocket.

The 2018-12-19 mission was the 20th Soyuz rocket to launch from the Guiana Space Center since Arianespace began offering a Europeanized version of the Soyuz rocket.

Arianespace launched six Ariane 5 heavy-lift rockets, three Soyuz medium-lift rockets, and two Vega light-lift rockets in 2018.

Axelspace’s first AxelGlobe satellite is scheduled to launch 2018-12-27 from Russia’s Vostochny Cosmodrome on a Soyuz-2 rocket through smallsat launch aggregator Glavkosmos.

Arianespace scheduled a Soyuz mission in the weeks after 2018-12-04 to launch CSO-1, a French military reconnaissance satellite, as its final launch of the year.