On April 26, the Russian National Space Agency Roscosmos said that Russian Soyuz boosters have successfully carried out a mission to put 36 satellite Internet and British communications into orbit, serving the ambitions to cover the Internet for Global.
Roscosmos images show that the Soyuz boosters have left the launch pad at Vostochny Space Airport in Russia’s Far East. The launch was conducted at 7:14 am, April 26 (local time). The Roscosmos announcement stated that the Soyuz boosters successfully launched 36 satellites of the OneWeb company (UK) in orbit. Meanwhile, on Twitter accounts, OneWeb confirmed the mission was successful.
With headquarters in London, UK, the OneWeb company intends to deploy a total of more than 650 satellites in the lower orbit of the Earth, in order to provide users on the ground with high-speed Internet 24 hours a day. day through contact satellites. The company is also competing with billionaires Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos in the race to cover high-speed internet via satellite to anywhere in the world, especially in remote areas. This is the third time the Russian side has launched the OneWeb satellite beam into Earth orbit after the previous two missions took place in December 2020 and March respectively at Vostochny space airport with 36 satellites per launch. The first six satellites of OneWeb were launched from the Guiana launch site in France in February 2019, and last year, the company launched 68 more satellites from Baikonur launch site, Kazakhstan.
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