This was announced by the general director of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin during the "New Knowledge" marathon
MOSCOW, September 2. /TASS/. The next launch of the Soyuz-2 launch vehicle from the Vostochny cosmodrome is scheduled for mid-October. This was announced by the general Director of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin on Thursday during the marathon "New Knowledge".
"We will have [the launch] in mid-October," Rogozin said.
In October, the launch of British OneWeb communication satellites is planned from the Vostochny cosmodrome. This year, four launches were carried out from Vostochny.
The first six OneWeb satellites went into orbit from the Kourou cosmodrome on a Soyuz-ST rocket on February 28, 2019. 34 spacecraft were launched from Baikonur on February 7, 2020, and the same number were launched on March 21 of the same year. For the first time, OneWeb satellites were launched from the Vostochny cosmodrome in December 2020. 36 devices were withdrawn. Then the launches under the program from Vostochny took place on March 25, April 26, May 28 and July 1, 2021, from Baikonur - on August 22, 2021.
