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Russian space program in 2024 For missions in 2023 click here
Planned Russian space launches in 2024: Feb. 22: A Soyuz rocket to launch Progress cargo ship from Baikonur toward the International Space Station, ISS. (As of 2014) March 30: A Soyuz rocket to launch the Soyuz MS-25 (No. 756) spacecraft with a crew of three from Baikonur toward the International Space Station, ISS. (As of 2014) April 16: A Soyuz rocket to launch Progress cargo ship from Baikonur toward the International Space Station, ISS. (As of 2014) First half of 2024: An Angara-5 rocket with a KVTK space tug to launch the Phobos Sample Return Mission from Vostochny to the surface of Mars. July 1: A Soyuz rocket to launch Progress cargo ship from Baikonur toward the International Space Station, ISS. (As of 2014) July: Russia to launch Elektro-M No. 2-2 weather-forecasting satellite. 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 Progress cargo ship from Baikonur toward the International Space Station, ISS. (As of 2014) Uncertain and cancelled missions 2024: Russia to launch the Arktika-M2.6 remote-sensing satellite. (As of 2018) 2024: Russia to launch the Resurs-PM No. 4 remote-sensing satellite. 2024: Russia to launch the Ekspress-AMU9 communications satellite. 2024: Russia to launch the Ekspress-MD5 communications satellite. 2024: A Soyuz rocket to launch Europe's Plato observatory from Kourou on a mission to discover thousands of exoplanets (planetary bodies beyond the Solar System). (A mission slated for approval as of beginning of 2014). 2024: A Soyuz-2-1b rocket to launch the OKA-T-2 free-flying module from Pad 1 in Vostochny to dock with Russia's next-generation space station. 2024: Russia's next-generation manned spacecraft, PTK NP, to fly its first manned mission from Vostochny Cosmodrome to the International Space Station. (As of mid-2014. As of beginning of 2013, the mission was promised around 2020.) Postponed from previous years: Postponed from June 30, 2022: A Soyuz-5 rocket to fly its inaugural mission from Site 45 in Baikonur. (As of middle of 2018) 2023 August-December 26: The Angara-5M rocket to fly its first mission from its new launch pad in Vostochny. (As of October 2018, reconfirmed in August 2019. During Presdient Putin's visit to Vostochny in September 2019, Head of Roskosmos Dmitry Rogozin claimed that the launch was planned for August 2023.) 2023: A Soyuz-2 rocket to launch a pair of Aist-2T remote-sensing satellites from Vostochny. (As of 2021. In February 2020, the launch was promised in November 2022.) 2023: 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 and by 2021, the mission was expected in 2023. 2023: A Soyuz-MS spacecraft with one pilot and two tourists to make a short visit to the ISS. One of the tourists might perform a spacewalk in the company of a professional cosmonaut. Roskosmos announced signing the agreement for the mission with US-based Space Adventures on June 25, 2020. 2023: A Russian Soyuz-2-1a rocket to launch the Russo-Belorussian Spacecraft, (INSIDER CONTENT), from Vostochny (As of 2019). 2023: A Soyuz-2.1b rocket to launch the Arktika-M No. 3 remote-sensing satellite. (As of 2018) 2023: Russia to launch Ionosfera-M No. 1, Ionosfera-M No. 2 scientific satellites. 2023: Russia to launch the Resurs-PM No. 3 remote-sensing satellite. 2023: A Zenit-3SLBF/Fregat-SB to launch the Elektro-M (No. 1, No. 1-1) weather-forecasting satellite into geostationary orbit from Baikonur. (In 2008, the launch was promised in 2014. (299) and 2009, the mission slipped to 2015 (388). By 2012, the launch was delayed to 2018. In 2015, the mission was postponed from April 2021.) 2023: A Soyuz-2-1b rocket with a Fregat upper stage to launch a Meteor-MP No. 1 satellite from Site 1S in Vostochny. (As of middle of 2015. The launch was previously expected in 2021.) 2023: Russia to launch the Ekspress-PF2 communications satellite. 2023: Russia to launch the Ekspress-PF3 communications satellite. 2023: A Soyuz-2.1b rocket to launch Luna-Resurs spacecraft to the surface of the Moon. As of beginning of 2011, an Indian GSLV Mk-II rocket was to launch a Chandrayaan-2/Luna-Resurs lunar mission in 2017, including a Russian-built lander, which would carry a rover built in India. (489) In 2009, the mission was promised in 2012. In 2007, the mission was expected in 2011, but by 2010, it slipped to September 2013. The Phobos-Grunt fiasco pushed the mission to 2016-2017. Also, in 2011, the mission was split into an orbiter to be launched on an Indian rocket and a Luna-Resurs lander to fly on a Soyuz-2 rocket. By 2014, the mission was postponed until 2023. 2023: A Soyuz-2 rocket to launch the Bion-M No. 2 satellite. (In 2013, the launch was expected in 2016-2017, however by mid-2014 it was delayed to 2019. In 2015, the mission was re-scheduled for 2021 and by the end of 2018, it was postponed until 2023. The 2023 launch date was reconfirmed in 2019.)
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