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Russian space program in 2022

As in 2021, the bulk of Russian launches in 2022 would be for the OneWeb Internet constellation. A total of seven launches were planned to carry OneWeb satellites, including one from French Guiana. The second largest share of launches would be in support of the ISS project. Both sides of the program would rely on the Soyuz-2 series. In the meantime, Col. General Sergei Karakaev, the commander of the Russian Strategic Missile Forces, promised 10 launches of ICBMs during 2022. After invasion of Ukraine on February 24 and subsequent exodus of Roskosmos' last foreign customers including OneWeb, Head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin still promised 20 space launches before the end of 2022, including no less than five from Vostochny spaceport.

For missions in 2021 click here

The world's orbital launch attempts in 2022 (as of October 5, 2022 ):

The 2022 space launch score card (as of October 5, 2022 ):

*Failed launch

Planned Russian space missions in 2022:

October 10: A Soyuz-2-1b/Fregat rocket to launch the GLONASS-K No. 17 navigation satellite from Plesetsk.

October 12: A Proton rocket to launch the Angosat-2 communications satellite from Baikonur.

October 22, 02:06 Moscow Time: A Soyuz-2 /Fregat rocket to launch a trio of Gonets-M satellites and a Skif-D experimental satellite for the Sfera network from Vostochny. The Fregat stage for the mission was delivered to Vostochny at the beginning of August 2022 and the trio of satellites was delivered to the Ignatievo airfield near Vostochny aboard the IL-76 aircraft on Sept. 14, 2022. The same way, Skif-D satellite was delivered to Vostochny on Sept. 29, 2022.

October 26, 03:19 Moscow Time: A Soyuz rocket to launch a Progress MS-21 cargo ship (ISS mission 82P) from Baikonur toward the International Space Station, ISS. Originally, the docking with the ISS was scheduled two days after launch, but in May 2022, Head of Roskosmos Dmitry Rogozin said that a one-orbit rendezvous profile could be tested during a cargo mission in the Fall of that year.

In a preliminary ISS flight manifest drafted in 2014, the third cargo mission of 2022 was penciled for October 16, but in early January 2022, Roskosmos announced the plan to launch Progress MS-21 on October 26. At that time, the vehicle's flight was expected to last 247 days.

The spacecraft arrived at Baikonur by rail on Oct. 25, 2021. The cargo ship underwent vacuum tests between September 12 and 20, after which it was installed at its processing rig inside the spacecraft processing building at Site 254 and connected to diagnostics equipment kicking off its active pre-launch operations. Processing operations included propellant lines pressurization tests, loading of thermal-control fluids and of Rodnik water delivery system, final operations with onboard computer and radio systems and loading of the ship's pressurized section with cargo for the ISS.

The routine testing of the ship's solar panel with their exposure to an array of electric lights was conducted on Sept. 30, 2022.

MISSIONS CANCELLED DUE TO RUSSIAN INVASION OF UKRAINE:

CANCELLED: March 5, 01:41:02 Moscow Time: A Soyuz-2-1b/Fregat-M rocket to launch the 14th OneWeb mission from Site 31 in Baikonur with 36 satellites.

CANCELLED, April 5: A Soyuz-ST-B rocket to launch a pair of European Galileo navigation satellites, FOC M10, from the ELS facility in French Guiana. The payload was shifted from the Ariane-6 rocket due to delays with the introduction of the new launch vehicle.

On February 17, Roskosmos announced that specialists from its TsENKI ground infrastructure division and from RKTs Progress manufacturer had begun unloading the stages of the Soyuz ST-B rocket inside the vehicle processing building in French Guiana in preparation for the assembly of the vehicle. In parallel, specialists from NPO Lavochkin were conducting preparations of the Fregat upper stage for fueling scheduled to be conducted in March, Roskosmos said.

CANCELLED, September 20, 14:10 UTC: A Proton-M rocket with a Briz-M stage to launch the ExoMars rover from Baikonur. In case of on-time launch, the spacecraft was scheduled to land on Mars on June 10, 2023 at 15:32 UTC. The launch window open until October 1, 2022. (As of September 2020. There were earlier reports expecting the launch in August 2022.)

CANCELLED, December: A Soyuz-ST/Fregat rocket to launch Europe's Euclid telescope from Kourou on a mission to map the distribution of galaxies. (As of October 2011, the launch was expected in December 2020. The mission got final approval in June 2012 , then still targeting the launch in 2020. By the end of 2015, the launch was confirmed in December 2020, however by the Fall of 2021, the launch was promised at the end of 2022.

Delayed from 2020 and cancelled: An Angara-1.2 rocket to launch the South-Korean Kompsat-6 remote-sensing satellite from Site 35 in Plesetsk. The agreement for the launch in 2020 was announced in July 2016.

Uncertain dates

Postponed from 2021: A Proton-M/Block DM-03 rocket to launch Elektro-L No. 4 satellite from Baikonur. (As of 2019)

2022: A Proton-M/Block DM-03 rocket to launch Elektro-L No. 5 satellite from Baikonur. (As of 2019)

2022: Russia to launch the Ekspress-AMU7 communications satellite (as of 2014).

2022: A Soyuz rocket to launch the Resurs-P No. 4 remote-sensing satellite. (As of early 2021. As of beginning of 2020, the launch was expected in the first quarter of 2021).

Delayed from November 2020: A Soyuz rocket to launch Resurs-P No. 5 satellite. As of beginning of 2018, the launch was planned in 2019, but by the beginning of that year, it had slipped to November 2020.

Postponed from 2021: Russia to launch the Resurs-PM remote-sensing satellite.

Delayed from 2021: A Soyuz-2-1a rocket to launch the second Kondor-FKA radar-carrying satellite. (As of 2019. Postponed from 2019, switched from Rockot/Briz-KM)

Around or after 2021: Russian military to launch the first new-generation Sfera-V military communications satellite. (As of 2016)

Delayed from 2021: A Soyuz-2/Fregat rocket to launch the Luna-Glob-2 (orbiter) toward the Moon.

Postponed from November 30: A Soyuz-2 rocket to launch the Meteor-M No. 2-3 remote-sensing satellite and a group of secondary payloads, including four satellites from Moscow State University, MGU, from Vostochny. (As of April 2021. As of second half of 2020, the launch was expected between August and October 2021).

End of 2021: A Soyuz-2 rocket to launch a cluster of small payloads from Vostochny, including the second StriX-β radar imaging demonstration satellite. (As of March 2021)

Previously cancelled missions

2021: A Soyuz-5 methane-burning launch vehicle to fly its first test mission (As of mid-2014).

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).

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This page is compiled by Anatoly Zak

Last update: October 5, 2022

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Soyuz-2-1/Fregat rocket with Neitron satellite shortly before launch on Feb. 5, 2022. Copyright © 2001 Anatoly Zak

Scale model of the Mars rover for the ExoMars project. Copyright © 2010 Anatoly Zak

Scale model of the Mars lander with the ExoMars rover inside. Copyright © 2010 Anatoly Zak

At the end of 2015, the Euclid space observatory was promised to launch in December 2020. By the middle of 2020, the launch was promised in 2022. Credit: ESA