Moscow | Russia has successfully launched its Soyuz-2.1B carrier rocket, bringing 36 satellites of the UK-based OneWeb Company into space. According to the news agency Xinhua, the Russian Space Corporation Roskosmos reported that the rocket took off from the Vostochni cosmodrome in the country’s far east at 3.26 pm.
“Today’s launch will be marked as the first full commercial launch launched from the Vostochni Cosmodrome,” Roscosmos said.
According to the news agency, this was the first launch of OneWeb satellites from the Vostochni spaceport and the first commercial launch from this space station.
On February 28, 2019, the first six OneWeb satellites were launched by a Soyuz-ST carrier rocket from the Kauru Space Center in French Guiana and placed in orbit on the same day.
This year two more launches were made from the Baikonur Space Center.
The company plans to deploy about 600 satellites.
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