British OneWeb communications satellites launched from Baikonur have been put into orbit - Roscosmos

Moscow. December 27. INTERFAX - A batch of 36 communications satellites of the British company OneWeb successfully separated from the Fregat upper stage after the launch of the Soyuz-2.1b rocket from the Baikonur cosmodrome, Roscosmos reported.

"All 36 OneWeb communications satellites have successfully separated from the Fregat upper stage and launched into target orbits," the state corporation said in a tweet.

The last launch brought the number of OneWeb spacecraft in orbit to 394 units.

The rocket launched on Monday at 16:10 Moscow time from the Baikonur cosmodrome.