Space exploration in 2019

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PLANNED RUSSIAN SPACE MISSIONS IN 2019:

2019: A Soyuz rocket with a Fregat upper stage to launch the second pair of a quartet of satellites to study plasma within the Roy ("Swarm") project from Plesetsk. Each 200-kilogram spacecraft would be based on the Karat platform with plasma-electric engines and carry around 60 kilograms of payload. Each spacecraft would carry a single magnitometer boom and four booms for measurement of the magnetic field.

2019: A Soyuz-2.1b rocket to launch an Arktika-M (No. 4) satellite. (As of 2010 (411))

2019:A Soyuz-2.1b rocket to launch an Arktika-RM (No. 2) satellite. (As of 2010 (411))

2019: Russia to launch the Okean No. 1 ocean-monitoring satellite. (As of 2010-2012)

2019: Russia to launch a Luna-Grunt mission to return soil samples from the lunar surface back to Earth. (As of August 2012)

2019: A Proton rocket to launch the Intergelio-Zond spacecraft to explore our Sun.

2019: Russia to complete the orbital deployment of the Obzor-O four-satellite remote-sensing constellation. (As of October 2012)

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This page is compiled by Anatoly Zak; Last update: January 3, 2013

Page editor: Alain Chabot; Last edit: April 30, 2011

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The circa 2010 depiction of the Intergelio-Zond spacecraft. Credit: Roskosmos