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Planned Russian space missions for 2026
For missions in 2025 click here
Postoponed from the end of August 2025: 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. However, in May 2025, a tour company carrying tourists to Russian launch site listed the Aist-2T launch window in 2026. March: A Soyuz-2 rocket to launch Progress MS-33 (No. 463) from Baikonur toward the International Space Station, ISS. First quarter: Russia to introduce the Start-1M launcher (INSIDER CONTENT) converted from the Topol-M ICBM. (As of 2024) June-July: A Soyuz-2-1a rocket to launch Soyuz MS-29 crew vehicle from Baikonur carrying three members of Expedition 75 to the International Space Station, ISS. On Aug. 21, 2024, Roskosmos announced that Russian cosmonauts Petr Dubrov, Sergei Korsakov and Anna Kikina had been appointed to the Soyuz MS-29 crew. With the reduction of Soyuz launches to the ISS to 1.5 per year and respective extension of Russian ISS expeditions, the launch of Soyuz MS-29 was delayed from July 2026 to Aug. 27, 2026. July: A Soyuz-2 rocket to launch Progress MS-34 (No. 464) from Baikonur toward the International Space Station, ISS. November: A Soyuz-2 rocket to launch Progress MS-35 (No. 465) from Baikonur toward the International Space Station, ISS. December: Russia to launch the Ekspress-AMU4 communications satellite (INSIDER CONTENT) for a Russian federal operator. (As of 2022-2024) End of 2026: A Soyuz-2-1b/Fregat rocket to launch the first Ekspress-RV communications satellite (INSIDER CONTENT) from Plesetsk. (As of mid-2026) 2026: A Proton-M rocket to launch the Luch-5VM data-relay satellite (INSIDER CONTENT) from Baikonur. (As of 2024) 2026: A Soyuz-2/Fregat rocket to launch the first batch of 15 operational Buro 1440 Internet satellites (INSIDER CONTENT). (As of 2024) 2026: A Soyuz-2/Fregat rocket to launch the first pair of operational Skif Internet satellites (INSIDER CONTENT) into a 8,070-kilometer polar orbit from Vostochny. (As of 2023 and 2024) 2026: A Soyuz-2/Fregat rocket to launch the first pair of experimental Piksel-VR satellites (INSIDER CONTENT). (As of 2023 and 2024) 2026: The first launch of the Soyuz-5 rocket from the Baiterek facility in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. (As of 2024. As of 2023, the launch was promised on Dec. 24, 2025) 2026: A Soyuz-2-1b rocket to launch Resurs-PM No. 1 satellite (INSIDER CONTENT) from Baikonur. (In 2024, the launch was postponed from 2025 to 2026.)
For missions beyond 2026 click here
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