They will be launched on a Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket with a Fregat upper stage on the night of March 5
MOSCOW, February 15. /tass/. Over 35 British OneWeb communications satellites have been delivered to the Baikonur Cosmodrome, from where they will be launched on a Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket with a Fregat upper stage on the night of March 5. This is stated in the message of Roscosmos, distributed on Tuesday.
"A new batch of 36 OneWeb spacecraft has been delivered to the Baikonur Cosmodrome as part of Mission No. 38. They arrived at the airport of the Extreme by An AN-124 plane. Their launch using the Soyuz-2.1b launch vehicle and the Fregat upper stage is scheduled for March 5, 2022 at 01:41 Moscow time," the message says.
As specified in the state corporation, the specialists of the Yuzhny Space Center (a branch of the Center for the Operation of Ground-based Space Infrastructure Facilities, part of Roscosmos) unloaded spacecraft and transported them to site 112 of the Baikonur Cosmodrome.
Previously, General Director of Glavkosmos JSC (part of Roscosmos) Dmitry Loskutov told TASS that a total of seven OneWeb satellite launches are planned for 2022. The first of them took place from the Guiana Space Center (Kourou Cosmodrome) on February 10. Then 34 OneWeb devices were launched into orbit.
OneWeb low-orbit spacecraft are designed to provide ground-based consumers with high-speed Internet directly via satellite communications. Now the group has 394 devices. All of them were withdrawn by Russian Soyuz missiles.
