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Proton in '26

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Buro 1440

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Piksel-VR

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👁 2024

Science in 2026

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Site 31 repairs

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Elektro-L5

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👁 Proton

A Proton-M rocket, equipped with the Block DM-03 upper stage for the last time, lifts off from Baikonur with the Elektro-L5 satellite on Feb. 12, 2026.

Orbital launch attempts in 2026 (as of April 4, 2026 ):

*An anomaly on the second stage during the deorbiting maneuver after the successful delivery of all the payloads.

**The launch experienced some loss of roll control during the first stage operation due to a solid booster burn-through, but the payload was sucessfully delivered to a planned orbit.

The 2026 space launch score card (as of April 4, 2026 ):

*failed launch

Planned Russian orbital launches:

Delayed from April 4, 16:00:00 Kazakhstan Time: A Soyuz-5 rocket to fly its first test mission from Site 45 in Baikonur. In November 2025, the launch was postponed from Dec. 24, 2025, until around end of March 2026, due to delays with the ground equipment. On March 17, 2026, authorities in the Kondinsky District of the Khanty-Mansiysky Autonomous Region (Yurga) announced a danger zone due to falling debris from the Soyuz-5 launch vehicle scheduled to lift off at 16:00 local time on March 27, with a back-up launch opportunity on March 28.

The warning affected Yagodny, Leushi, Listvenichny, Mezhdurechensky, Mortka and Kuminsky settlements located in the southwestern section of the Kondinsky District, extending from the rivers of Bolshaya and Malaya Leushinka, Samsur, Chernaya and Kuma to the border with the Taborinsky District in the Sverdlovsk Region of Russia.

On March 26, the Kazakh news agency, KazTAG, reported that the rollout of the flight-worthy Soyuz-5 rocket had been postponed from March 26 to March 29, in turn, pushing the launch date to April 2, 2026. By March 30, the rollout was delayed until March 31 and the launch until April 4, 2026. The same source did confirm that the rocket had arrived at the launch pad on March 31.

On April 4, KazTAG reported that the planned launch of the Soyuz-5 rocket had been postponed to conduct necessary checks and to correct issues with the launch equipment and with the rocket found during tests on the pad, after which the State Commission would make a decision on the new launch date.

Soyuz-5 arrives at Site 45 on March 31, 2026.

April 26, 01:21 Moscow Time: A Soyuz-2 rocket to launch Progress MS-34 (No. 464, ISS mission 95P) from Baikonur toward the International Space Station, ISS. The mission was initially planned for July 2026, but by 2025, it was advanced to Feb. 11, 2026. By October 2025, the launch slipped to March 25, 2026, at 13:48 Moscow Time. After the launch pad damage at Site 31 during the launch of Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft on Nov. 27, 2025, the mission was postponed until April 26, 2026, at 01:21 Moscow Time.

The active preparing for the Progress MS-34 mission started in Baikonur on March 11, 2026, when specialists from RKK Energia and KTs Yuzhny branch of Roskosmos' ground infrastructure division, TsENKI, moved the cargo ship in the anechoic chamber at Site 254 for radio systems' checks. It was a rare overlapping processing campaign with the preceding Progress MS-33 cargo mission, resulting from the effort to make up the ISS re-supply schedule, which was disrupted by the November 2025 accident at Site 31.

The vacuum testing of Progress MS-34 was completed by March 23, 2026.

Progress MS-34 is being installed inside the anechoic chamber at Site 254 on March 11, 2026, for radio system's checks.

July 14, 17:43 Moscow Time: 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, but by the middle of 2025, the launch date was advanced to June 15. By October 2025, the launch slipped to July 14, 2026. As of of early 2026, the mission was expected to last 261 days, landing on April 1, 2027.

The spacecraft for the mission (Production No. 759) was reported delivered to Baikonur on Nov. 7, 2025.

September 9: A Soyuz-2-1b rocket to launch Progress MS-35 (No. 465) from Baikonur toward the International Space Station, ISS. The mission was initially planned for November 2026, but by 2025, it was advanced to April 28, 2026. By October 2025, the launch slipped to June 17, 2026. Following the service platform collapse at Site 31 in November 2025, and the resulting domino effect of delays, the Progress MS-35 mission was re-scheduled for Sept. 9, 2026.

After a series of factory checks, Progress MS-35 was shipped from its production plant in Korolev to Baikonur around April 1, 2026.

Progress MS-35 is being prepared for shipment to Baikonur.

November 24: A Soyuz-2 rocket to launch Progress MS-36 from Baikonur toward the International Space Station, ISS. The launch was originally expected on Aug. 17, 2026, but by October 2025, the mission slipped to Sept. 9, 2026. Following the service platform collapse at Site 31 in November 2025, and the resulting domino effect of delays, the Progress MS-36 mission was re-scheduled for Nov. 24, 2026.

December 2, 10:03 Moscow Time: A Soyuz-2 rocket to launch Progress MS-37 from Baikonur toward the International Space Station, ISS. The launch was originally expected on Nov. 20, 2026, but by October 2025, the mission slipped to Dec. 2, 2026.

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 and the Yamal-501 communications satellite (INSIDER CONTENT) from Baikonur. (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.)

Delayed from 2025: Russia to launch Smotr-V and -R remote sensing satellites for Gazprom-SPKA. (As of 2023)

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

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This page is compiled by Anatoly Zak

Last update: April 4, 2026

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Proton rocket lifts off from Baikonur with Elektro-L5 weather satellite on Feb. 12, 2026 for the first time in three years (INSIDER CONTENT). Credit: Roskosmos

👁 Progress

Separation of the first batch of Rassvet satellites (INSIDER CONTENT) from the third stage of the Soyuz rocket on March 23, 2026. Click to enlarge. Credit: Buro 1440