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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 August 13, 2022 ):

The 2022 space launch score card (as of August 13, 2022 ):

*Failed launch

Planned Russian space missions in 2022:

September 21, 16:54 Moscow Time: A Soyuz-2 rocket to launch the Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft with a crew of three from Baikonur to the International Space Station, ISS. (As of 2014) As of 2020, Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Anna Kikina were expected to fly the mission. By May 2021, Sergei Prokopiev, Anna Kikina and Dmitri Petelin were listed on the crew, while Kononenko was moved to the next crew. Roskosmos officially confirmed the crew on May 19, 2021. Oleg Kononenko, Nikolai Chub and Andrei Fedyaev were assigned to be backups. However, by December 2021, Kikina was transferred to a US commercial crew (Flight USCV-5) in an exchange program with NASA, so that an American astronaut could fly aboard Soyuz MS-22.

On Jan. 20, 2022, Roskosmos said that US astronaut Frank Rubio would replace Kikina aboard Soyuz MS-22 if the exchange agreement with NASA was reached.

On Jan. 2, 2022, Roskosmos confirmed the September 21 launch time and specified the launch time at 16:54 Moscow Time. At the time, the Soyuz MS-22 mission was scheduled to last 188 days.

By September 2021, the launch of Soyuz MS-22 was shifted in the ISS flight manifest from September 13 to September 21. The spacecraft was shipped to Baikonur by rail on Dec. 7, 2021, and reached the processing building at Site 254 on Dec. 14, 2021. The rocket for the mission arrived at Baikonur's processing facility on June 29, 2022.

The active launch compaign for the mission started in Baikonur in early July 2022.

October 26, 03:19 Moscow Time: A Soyuz rocket to launch a Progress MS-21 cargo ship 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.

End of 2022: A Soyuz-2 rocket to launch a trio of Gonets-M satellites from Vostochny. (As of middle of 2021)

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.

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 2020: 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.

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.

October-November or 2022: A Soyuz-2/Fregat rocket to launch the Luna-Glob (Luna-25) lunar lander from Vostochny.

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).

For missions in 2023 click here

This page is compiled by Anatoly Zak

Last update: August 13, 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