Soyuz orbited 34 British communications satellite
All 34 satellite to be launched launched From Baikonur on a Russian rocket " Soyuz-2. 1B, " went into orbit, said on Sunday in a British organization OneWeb, which owns the device.
All 34 satellite to be launched launched From Baikonur on a Russian rocket " Soyuz-2. 1B, " went into orbit, said on Sunday in a British organization OneWeb, which owns the device.
"Union" was started From Baikonur at 20. 07 GMT and a few minutes brought the unit to disperse "Frigate" with the satellites on a suborbital trajectory." The frigate " took two enable engines to deliver the device into an orbit altitude of 450 kilometers. The satellites were obliged to separate in groups of two to four unit 21. 18 GMT to 23. 52 GMT.
Saturday's run is notable for the fact that the Firm OneWeb decided to dedicate it to the world's first man in space, held 55 years ago: March 18, 1965 Soviet Astronaut Aleksey Leonov walked in space on Board the ship " Voskhod-2 ".
first Firm Arianespace said that in the year 2020 From the Baikonur cosmodrome and East is expected to carry More than eight runs with OneWeb satellites and up to 2 launches From Kourou.
in June 2015, an agreement was signed between Arianespace and organizations OneWeb 21 start-up of carrier rockets "Soyuz" With the upper stage block "Frigate" to launch into space 672 OneWeb satellites. From the cosmodrome Baikonur is planned nine starts (one already completed), With the East six, With Kuru - six (one already done).
in the first stage into orbit is expected to bring 588 machines OneWeb to provide global commercial provision of telecommunications services in 2021. 60 more satellites will be made up. By 2026, the number of spacecraft in orbit is planned to increase up to 2 thousand..
OneWeb plans to make a cluster of satellites which will give the opportunity to provide broadband access to the world wide web to users all over the world due to the complete coverage of the Earth's surface.
in 2018, it was announced that against the allocation of radio frequencies organization by the FSB and Roskomnadzor. In the last month of summer 2019 Firm OneWeb has withdrawn a petition to receive radio frequencies in Russia to operate its satellites. The firm stated that the application will process and submit again based on the Russian requirements for national security.
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