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Developments in 2025:

Buro 1440

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Venera-17

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Soyuz-5

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Voronezh

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Spektr-M in 2025

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Piksel-VR

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Spektr-UF in 2025

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Luna-26 design

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Luna-26 in 2025

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Rockot-M

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February 5 milsats

ExoMars rover

The 5th flight of Angara-5

Just before the start of the year, Roskosmos promised to launch no less than 12 communications (INSIDER CONTENT), remote-sensing (INSIDER CONTENT) and other satellites from the Russian launch sites in 2025. Some foreign payloads were also planned for launch, according to the State Corporation. In June, head of Roskosmos Dmitry Bakanov promised more than 20 orbital launch attempts in 2025, reversing the falling rate of launches in the previous three years. According to First Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov, Russia operated 220 scientific and application satellites in April 2025.

For missions in 2024 click here

A Soyuz-2-1a rocket with the Progress MS-30 spacecraft lifts off on Feb. 28, 2025.

The world's orbital launch attempts in 2025 (as of July 18, 2025 ):

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

**The satellite failed to reach its planned orbit due to its propulsion system failure.

***The first stage tipped over at touchdown due to fire damage to a landing leg.

The 2025 space launch score card (as of July 18, 2025 ):

*Failed launch

Planned Russian space launches:

July 25, 08:54 Moscow Time: A Soyuz-2 rocket to launch the second pair Ionosfera satellites (No. 3 and No. 4) and a cluster of secondary payloads from Vostochny.

As of October 2024, the launch was expected in April 2025, but by the end of 2024, the mission was set for June 17, 2025. In March 2025, the launch was expected on July 24-25.

The Fregat upper stage for the mission arrived at Vostochny by April 11, 2025. At the launch site, the space tug was put into storage until the start of the active launch campaign a month later. On May 12, Roskosmos reported that specialists from Vostochny space center and from NPO Lavochkin had unpacked Fregat and installed into it processing rig for the upcoming electric and pneumatic tests preceding fueling operations. Roskosmos reported the start of fueling opeations on Fregat on June 4, 2025.

The Ilyshin-76 transport aircraft with a pair Ionosfera satellites for the mission landed at the newly completed airport in Vostochny on June 17, 2025. Specialists from VNIIEM Corporation were reported starting the tests of the spacecraft at the launch site on June 21.

August 20, 20:13 Moscow Time: A Soyuz-2.1a rocket to launch the Bion-M No. 2 biological research satellite from Site 31 in Baikonur. 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. But by 2023, it was postponed until 2024. By May 2024, the launch date slipped from August to Sept. 1, 2024, and by July 2024, it was re-scheduled for March 2025. In early 2025, the mission was expected on July 20 of that year, but by April, Russian officials admitted possibility of a delay until September 2025. By June 2025, the launch date slipped to August 25 and, by July, it was advanced to August 20.

September 11: A Soyuz-2-1a rocket to launch the Progress MS-32 cargo ship from Baikonur. During 2024, the launch of Progress MS-32 was expected on Aug. 13, 2025, but before the end of 2024, the mission shifted to Sept. 11, 2025.

The spacecraft was delivered to Baikonur on June 24, 2025, and put in storage mode at Site 254 until the start of an active launch campaign.

October 22: A Proton-M rocket to launch the Ekvator communications satellite for Iran from Baikonur to the geostationary orbit.

November 27: A Soyuz-2-1a rocket to launch Soyuz MS-28 crew vehicle from Baikonur carrying three members of Expedition 74 to the International Space Station, ISS.

On Aug. 21, 2024, Roskosmos announced that Russian cosmonauts Sergei Kud'-Sverchkov, Sergei Mikaev and Oleg Platonov had been assigned to the Soyuz MS-28 crew. Around that time, the launch of Soyuz MS-28 was expected on Oct. 25, 2025, but before the end of 2024, the mission shifted to Nov. 27, 2025.

December 19: A Soyuz-2-1a rocket to launch the Progress MS-33 cargo ship from Baikonur. During 2024, the launch of Progress MS-33 was expected on Nov. 20, 2025, but before the end of 2024, the mission shifted to Dec. 19, 2025.

Delayed from first quarter: 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 and by September 2024, it was postponed until the first quarter of 2025.

The unboard payload for the first Obzor-R was delivered to RKTs Progress for final integration in April 2024, making it possible the shipment of the satellite to the launch site in December 2024 and its launch in the first quarter of 2025, according to RKTs Progress. However, unofficial sources said in the Fall of 2024, that the Kasatka-R radar payload had to be shipped back to its manufacturer, NII TP, for upgrades after failing tests, which was the main reason that pushed the mission from 2024 into 2025. By early 2025, the launch was delayed until Summer of Fall of that year.

December: A Soyuz-2 rocket to launch first 16 satellites for the Buro 1440 Internet constellation (INSIDER CONTENT). (As of May 2025)

2025: A Soyuz-2 rocket to launch five experimental satellites for the Marafon IoT system (INSIDER CONTENT). (As of early 2023)

2025: Russia to launch Smotr-V and -R remote sensing satellites for Gazprom-SPKA. (As of 2023)

2025: Russia to launch the first satellite in the Berkut remote-sensing series (INSIDER CONTENT). (As of 2024)

Delayed from July 2024: A Proton-M rocket to launch the Elektro-M No. 2-2 weather satellite.

For missions in 2026 click here

This page is compiled by Anatoly Zak

Last update: July 18, 2025

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The fifth Angara-5 lifts off from Plesetsk with its first geostationary payloads on June 19, 2025.

Scale model of the Bion-M satellite. Copyright © 2010 Anatoly Zak