![]() |
|
For missions in 2020 click here
PLANNED RUSSIAN SPACE MISSIONS IN 2021: Feb. 22: A Soyuz rocket to launch a Progress cargo ship from Baikonur toward the International Space Station, ISS. (As of 2014) March 30: A Soyuz rocket to launch a Soyuz manned transport spacecraft with a crew of three from Baikonur toward the International Space Station, ISS. (As of 2014) April 16: A Soyuz rocket to launch a Progress cargo ship from Baikonur toward the International Space Station, ISS. (As of 2014) June: Russia to launch the Meteor-M No. 2-5 remote-sensing satellite. July 1: A Soyuz rocket to launch a Progress cargo ship from Baikonur toward the International Space Station, ISS. (As of 2014) Sept. 13: A Soyuz rocket to launch a Soyuz manned transport spacecraft with a crew of three from Baikonur toward the International Space Station, ISS. (As of 2014) Oct. 16: A Soyuz rocket to launch a Progress cargo ship from Baikonur toward the International Space Station, ISS. (As of 2014) Uncertain dates 2021: A Soyuz-2.1b rocket to launch the 2,100-kilogram Arktika-M No. 2 remote-sensing satellite. Th launch was originally promised in 2016. In 2015, postponed from 2018 to 2019. By 2018, the launch was postponed to 2021. 2021: Russia to launch the Meteor-M No. 2-4 meteorological satellite. (As of beginning of 2018. The mission was previously planned in May 2020). 2021: Russia to launch the Resurs-PM No. 2 remote-sensing satellite. Around or after 2021: Russian military to launch the first new-generation Sfera-V military communications satellite. (As of 2016) Beginning of the fourth quarter: A Proton rocket to launch the Science and Power Module, NEM-1, to the ISS. (As of April 2015, the launch of the NEM-1 module was expected at the beginning of the fourth quarter of 2019. However, by the middle of 2017, the mission had to be postponed until 2021.) 2021: A Soyuz-2.1b rocket to launch an Arktika-M (No. 4) satellite. (As of 2010, the mission was expected in 2019. (411) In 2015, the launch postponed until 2021.) 2021: A Soyuz-2/Fregat rocket to launch the Luna-Glob-2 (orbiter) toward the Moon. 2021: A Soyuz-5 launch vehicle to fly its first test mission (As of mid-2014). Cancelled missions 2021: An Angara-5P rocket to launch an unmanned prototype of the new-generation PTK Federatsiya spacecraft from Vostochny. 2021: Russia to launch the Ekspress-AT4 communications satellite (as of 2014). 2021: Russia to launch the Ekspress-AT5 communications satellite (as of 2014). 2021: Russia to launch the Ekspress-AMU8 communications satellite (as of 2014). Around or after 2021: Russia to start assembling a new space station under the OPSEK project to succeed the International Space Station, ISS. 2021: Russia to launch the first of two Vozvrat-MKA spacecraft. (Postponed indefinitely in April 2015)
Read (and see) much more about these and many other space developments in Russia
For missions in 2022 click here |
IMAGE ARCHIVE |
![]() |