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Russian space program in 2024

At the end of January 2024, Deputy Defense Minister Aleksei Krivoruchko promised 18 orbital launches of military spacecraft before the end of the year. Seven launches of intercontinental ballistic missiles were also planned for 2024. In total, more than 40 orbital launches were scheduled by Roskosmos, according to an interview of its head Yuri Borisov published on February 19. However, Borisov cautioned that it was only a plan which would be difficult to fulfill given the experience in the previous year. In July 2024, Borisov also said that the Russian orbital grouping had increased to 244 spacecraft from 192 satellites in 2022, but most of the additions were likely cubesat-type payloads.

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Angara-5 lifts off (INSIDER CONTENT) from its new launch pad in Vostochny on April 11, 2024.

The world's orbital launch attempts in 2024 (as of September 8, 2024 ):

*Reusable first stage lost during a botched landing on a drone ship.

The 2024 space launch score card (as of September 8, 2024 ):

*Failed launch

**Upper stage failed to perform deorbiting maneuver and release of two payloads due to the Auxiliary Power Unit failure.

***Second stage failure left satellites in unusable orbit.

Planned Russian space launches in 2024:

September 11, 19:23:20 Moscow Time: A Soyuz-2-1a rocket to launch a Soyuz MS-26 (Production No. 757) with a crew of three from Baikonur's Site 31 toward the International Space Station, ISS. (As of 2014)

The primary crew of the Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, intended to deliver three members of Expedition 72 to the ISS included veteran Roskosmos cosmonauts Aleksei Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner. On March 27, 2024, NASA publicly confirmed that its veteran astronaut Don Pettit would launch aboard Soyuz MS-26, as a member of ISS Expeditions 71 and 72.

In March 2023, Roskosmos also reported that Sergei Kud-Sverchkov, Aleksei Zubritsky and Aleksandr Gorbunov were assigned to a backup crew for Expedition 72. Kud-Sverchkov's crew was also expected to serve as a primary crew during the first Russian launch to the ISS in 2025.

After post-production tests in Korolev in the Fall of 2023, Soyuz MS-26 was shipped to Baikonur Cosmodrome on Dec. 18, 2023. It was unloaded at the processing site at Site 254 in Baikonur on Dec. 25, 2023. The launch vehicle for the mission was reported arriving at the Tyuratam train station serving the space center aboard a 28-car train, also carrying components of the rocket for the Progress MS-29 mission, on June 25, 2024. Within next 24 hours, RKK Energia team at Site 254 removed Soyuz MS-26 from storage and began its processing for launch.

On Aug. 26, 2024, the primary and backup crews arrived at Baikonur for a familiarization training inside the flight-worthy Soyuz MS-26, which took place on August 28 inside the Spacecraft Processing Buliding, MIK KA, at Site 254. Part of exercise was performed with cosmonauts donning Sokol-KV2 pressure safety suits.

On Sept. 1, 2024, Soyuz MS-26 was connected to its launch vehicle adapter after being weighted and being prepared for loading of the final cargo. The spacecraft was then rolled inside its payload fairing assembly and rotated back into vertical position for final tests.

On September 5, the primary and backup crews took turns taking seats inside Soyuz MS-26 in its launch configuration, where they checked the composition and placement of deliverable items inside the Reentry and Habitation modules. They also tested the operation of key systems in simulation mode. On the same day, specialists from RKK Energia unplugged the vehicle from the diagnostics equipment in preparation for its transfer to the launch vehicle assembly building at Site 31 for integration with its Soyuz-2-1a launch vehicle which was completed on September 6. On the same day, the State Commission, overseeing the campaign, authorized the rollout of the vehicle to the launch pad at Site 31 on Sept. 8, 2024, which took place in the morning hours of the day.

November 5: A Soyuz-2-1b/Fregat rocket to launch a pair of Ionosfera-M satellites and a cluster of secondary payloads from Pad 1S in Vostochny. The launch was planned for Dec. 5, 2023, but in September 2023, it was pushed back until Dec. 10, 2023, at 02:18 Moscow Time, and to Dec 12, 2023. By November 2023, the mission was postponed until May 21, 2024, but by that time, the launch slipped to Nov. 5, 2024.

On Aug. 27, 2024, Roskosmos announced that specialists from its TsENKI ground infrastructure division in Vostochny and engineers from NPO Lavochkin began preparation of the Fregat upper stage, marking the start of the launch campaign for the Ionosfera-M mission in Vostochny. On Sept. 4, 2024, specialists from TsENKI infrastructure division at Roskosmos and NPO Lavochkin transferred the Fregat from its processing site to the fueling facility. The loading of the propellant components and pressurized gases aboard the station was initiated on September 5.

November 21: A Soyuz-2-1a rocket to launch Progress MS-29 from Baikonur toward the International Space Station, ISS. (As of 2014, the launch was projected for October 16.) The delivery of the spacecraft to Baikonur was reported on June 17, 2024.

The launch vehicle for the mission was reported arriving at Tyuratam aboard a 28-car train, also carrying components of the rocket for the Soyuz MS-26 mission, on June 25, 2024.

Nov. 30: A Soyuz-2 rocket to launch Kondor-FKA No. 2 satellite from Pad 1S in Vostochny. (As of March 2023, the launch was expected on June 8, 2024, but by June 2024, it slipped to November 30.)

Fourth quarter of 2024: A Soyuz-2.1a rocket to launch the Obzor-R remote-sensing satellite. In early 2024, the launch was expected in the second quarter of that year, but by August 2024, it was postponed until the fourth quarter of 2024.

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This page is compiled by Anatoly Zak

Last update: September 8, 2024

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Soyuz-2-1b rocket lifts off on March 31, 2024, with the Resurs-P4 remote-sensing satellite. Click to enlarge. Credit: Roskosmos

The fourth Angara-5 rocket (INSIDER CONTENT), equipped with Block DM-03-based upper stage lifts off from Vostochny for the first time on April 11, 2024. Click to enlarge. Credit: Roskosmos

One of four Cluster spacecraft at Site 112 in Baikonur during processing for launch on a Soyuz rocket in 2000. After nearly quarter of a century in orbit, the quartet of satellites intended for studying Earth's magnetosphere, was projected to reenter the atmosphere in 2024. Click to enlarge. Credit: Roskosmos