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Planned Russian space missions in 2025

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February 12: A Soyuz-2-1a rocket to launch the Progress MS-30 cargo ship from Baikonur.


2025: 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. But by 2023, it was postponed until 2024. By May 2024, the launch date slipped from August to Sept. 1, 2024, and by July, it was re-scheduled for 2025.


2025: A Soyuz-2-1a rocket to launch Soyuz MS-27 crew vehicle from Baikonur carrying three members of Expedition 73 to the International Space Station, ISS. On Aug. 21, 2024, Roskosmos announced that Russian cosmonauts Sergei Ryzhikov and Aleksei Zubritsky would be accompanied by NASA astronaut Jonathan Kim aboard Soyuz MS-27. The US astronat would fly under an exchange agreement, which also put Roskosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov on NASA's Commercial Crew 10, then scheduled for launch aboard a Crew Dragon spacecraft in February 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: A Soyuz-2-1b rocket to launch the first Resurs-PM satellite. (As of 2024)


2025: 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.


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


2025 Dec. 24: The first launch of the Soyuz-5 rocket from the Baiterek facility in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. (As of 2023)


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

 

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This page is compiled by Anatoly Zak

Last update: September 22, 2024

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