Launches of Russian rockets from the Vostochny cosmodrome in 2021 are no longer expected
MOSCOW, October 14. /TASS/. Launches of Russian rockets from the Vostochny cosmodrome are no longer expected this year. This was announced by the Director General of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin on Thursday.
"With this launch (of the Soyuz-2.1b launch vehicle - approx. TASS) we have completed a series of launches from the East this year. But there is still a lot of work until the end of December: from Baikonur, Plesetsk and Kuru," Rogozin wrote in his Telegram channel.
The Soyuz-2.1b rocket with 36 British OneWeb communications satellites launched from the Vostochny cosmodrome at 12:40 Moscow time on Thursday. The satellites will be separated from the upper stage in several stages. As a result, the number of spacecraft of the British company in orbit will increase to 358.
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 For the first time, OneWeb satellites were launched from the Vostochny cosmodrome in December 2020. 36 devices were withdrawn.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 launches under the program from the Vostochny cosmodrome took place on March 25, April 26, May 28 and July 1, 2021, from Baikonur - on August 22 and September 14, 2021.
