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The world's orbital launch attempts in 2023 (as of May 31, 2023 ):

The 2023 space launch score card (as of May 31, 2023 ):

*Failed launch

Planned Russian space launches in 2023:

June 27, 03:06:46 Moscow Time: A Soyuz-2-1b/Fregat rocket to launch a Meteor-M No. 2-3 meteorological satellite and a cluster of secondary payloads from Pad 1S in Vostochny. (As of March 10, 2023, the launch was postponed from May 25, 2023, at 20:34 Moscow Time). Meteor-M No. 2-3 was reported delivered to Vostochny on May 6, 2023.

August: A Soyuz-2-1b/Fregat rocket to launch the Luna-25 (Luna-Glob) lander to the Moon from Pad 1S in Vostochny.

August 23: A Soyuz-2 rocket to launch Progress MS-24 from Baikonur to the International Space Station, ISS.

September 15: A Soyuz-2-1a rocket to launch the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft (No. 755) with a crew of three from Baikonur to the International Space Station, ISS. One of its three crew members was expected to be a guest cosmonaut from Belarus, who would return to Earth with the crew of Soyuz MS-23 after a short visit to the station. His return seat aboard Soyuz MS-24 in early 2024 would be occupied by one member of the original Soyuz MS-23 crew. According to Roskosmos, on June 14, 2022, National Academy of Belarus submitted 29 candidates to Roskosmos for the guest-cosmonaut selection after screening more than 100 applicants. Two finalists expected to be females serving as a primary candidate and a backup. They were scheduled to be selected early in 2023.

By January 2023, Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub, originally slated to launch aboard Soyuz MS-23, were re-assigned to the Soyuz MS-24 mission, due to the need to use their spacecraft as a replacement vehicle for Soyuz MS-22, which was damaged by a coolant leak in December 2022. In turn, the flight of a guest cosmonaut from Belarus was shifted to the follow-on Soyuz mission in 2024. A US astronaut Loral O'Hara joined Kononenko and Chub on the Soyuz MS-24 crew.

On Feb. 1, 2023, Roskosmos announced that two Soyuz-2-1a rockets for launching Progress MS-23 and Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft had been shipped from the manufacturing site at RKTs Progress in Samara to the Baikonur launch site.

In early March 2023, plans surfaced to advance the launch of Soyuz MS-24 from September 15 to June 7, 2023, probably in order to provide an earlier landing of the Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft, which could be affected by an issue that caused coolant leaks aboard Soyuz MS-22 and Progress MS-21 transport ships.

On March 11, Sergei Krikalev, Head of Piloted Space Flight at Roskosmos, confirmed to the Interfax news agency, that an earlier launch for the Soyuz MS-24 had been under consideration among several other scenarios. However, the meeting of the State Commission on March 24, 2023, kept the schedule as is for the time being, possibly because it would be impossible to sustain future crew rotations aboard the ISS with earlier launches.

The first phase of preparation for the Soyuz MS-24 mission started in the processing building at Site 254 on March 17, 2023, with a visual inspection, initial measurements and the connection of the ship to test equipment, RKK Energia said. By March 24, specialists completed autonomous tests of Soyuz' avionics and Kazbek cosmonauts seats on ground-based stands.

In the last week of March 2023, specialists from RKK Energia powered up the onboard computer system, TV and radio equipment aboard Soyuz MS-24 and tested the pressurization of the ship's Thermal Control System, SOTR, (INSIDER CONTENT). The testing of the spacecraft in the anechoic chamber, BEK, at Site 254 was performed on April 14. On April 29, engineers powered up the ship's onboard systems to perform the simulation of launch readiness and integrated tests during various flight modes. The spacecraft was then mothballed at the work site until the start of its active launch campaign, Roskosmos said, indicating that the earlier launch of the Soyuz MS-24 had been ruled out for the time being.

On May 6, Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub were reported conducting final fit checks of Sokol KV-2 safety suits and Kazbek-UM seats at NPP Zvezda enterprise.

December 1: A Soyuz-2-1b/Fregat rocket to launch a Meteor-M No. 2-4 meteorological satellite and a cluster of secondary payloads from Pad 1S in Vostochny.

December 1: A Soyuz rocket to launch Progress MS-25 from Baikonur toward the International Space Station, ISS. The spacecraft was shipped from its assembly plant in Korolev to Baikonur on Jan. 20, 2023. A pair of Soyuz-2-1a rockets for the launches of Progress vehicles were shipped from RKTs Progress to Baikonur around May 22, 2023.

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This page is compiled by Anatoly Zak; Last update: May 31, 2023

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Luna-Resurs lander. Click to enlarge. Copyright © 2013 Anatoly Zak

Angara-5 during the first stage ascent. Click to enlarge. Copyright © 2014 Anatoly Zak

At the end of 2015, the Euclid space observatory was promised to launch in December 2020 on a Soyuz rocket. By the middle of 2020, the launch was promised in 2022. By October 2022, ESA arranged the launch of the spacecraft on a Falcon-9 rocket, replacing Soyuz after Russia's escalation of its war against Ukraine. Credit: ESA