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Developments in 2025:

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

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.

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 April 1, 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 April 1, 2025 ):

*Failed launch

Planned Russian space launches:

April 8: 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 astronaut will 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. Russian cosmonauts Sergei Kud'-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev, along with NASA astronaut Christopher Williams were assigned to a back-up crew.

The launch was originally planned on March 20, 2025, but by the end of November 2024, it was re-scheduled for March 16, 2025. Before the end of 2024, the mission shifted to April 8, 2025.

Soyuz MS-27 was delivered to Baikonur in early December 2024 and its processing for launch started in mid-January 2025. The booster stages of the Soyuz-2-1a rocket for the mission were integrated into a cluster at the vehicle assembly building at Site 31 by the end of Jan. 31, 2025.

On March 4, 2025, Roskosmos reported completion of vacuum chamber tests with Soyuz MS-27 which was expected to be followed with checks of the Integrated Propulsion System, KDU (INSIDER CONTENT), the Descent Control System, SIOS, test activation of the onboard computers and radio system and filling of the Thermal Control System, SOTR (INSIDER CONTENT), with coolant fluids. The solar panels of Soyuz MS-27 were deployed and tested to exposure to light by March 17, 2025.

On March 24 in Baikonur, the primary and back-up crews tried their Sokol-KV2 pressure safety suits and conducted a familiarization training inside the flight-ready Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft, after which it was sent to a fueling station. Fueling operations were completed on March 25 and the crew vehicle was returned to Site 254 for loading of cargo, hatch pressure checks, installation of the exterior thermal protection layers and weighting. On March 27, 2025, the spacecraft was integrated with the launch vehicle adapter.

April 28: An Angara-1.2 rocket to launch a military payload from Site 35 in Plesetsk.

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.

June 8: An Angara-5 rocket to launch a military payload from Site 35 in Plesetsk. (As of early 2025)

July 3: A Soyuz-2-1a rocket to launch the Progress MS-31 cargo ship from Baikonur. During 2024, the launch of Progress was expected on May 28, 2025, but before the end of 2024, the launch date shifted to July 3, 2025. On March 14, 2025, RKK Energia reported that the spacecraft completed its factory tests and was shipped to Baikonur.

July 24: 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.

July: 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 2024, it was re-scheduled for March 2025. In early 2025, the mission was expected in July of that year.

End of August: A Soyuz-2 rocket to launch Aist-2T No. 1 and No. 2 observation satellites and a cluster of secondary payloads from Site 1S in Vostochny (As of September 2024).

In 2021, the launch was promised in 2023. In February 2020, the mission was planned for November 2022 and was later re-scheduled for Dec. 25, 2024. By mid-October 2024, the mission was postponed until at least March 17, 2025, and by the end of 2024, it was rumored to be delayed until June 26, 2025. Early in 2025, the launch slipped to the end of August 2025.

The launch vehicle for the mission was delivered to by rail from Samara to Vostochny in mid-November 2024.

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.

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.

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

2025: A Proton-M rocket to launch a communications satellite for Iran from Baikonur to the geostationary orbit.

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: April 1, 2025

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