Moscow:
A Russian Soyuz rocket on Thursday blasted into space carrying 36 new satellites from British operator OneWeb, which aims to provide broadband net everywhere in the world.
The rocket, operated by Europe’s Arianespace, took off at 0940 GMT from the Vostochny cosmodrome in Russia’s Far East, broadcast live by the country’s Roscosmos space agency.
“LIFTOFF!” Roscosmos tweeted right after the launch — the seventh this year carrying OneWeb satellites.
Take a look at some photographs from today’s launch???? of the #Soyuz-2.1b with the #Fregat upper stage and 36 @OneWeb satellites????️ from the #Vostochny_Cosmodrome: pic.twitter.com/iLwGWJX323
— GLAVKOSMOS (@glavkosmosJSC) October 14, 2021
OneWeb, a London-headquartered corporation, is working to full the building of a constellation of low earth orbit satellites giving enhanced broadband and other services to nations about the world.
The corporation is competing in the race to provide rapid net for the world’s remote locations by means of satellites along with tech billionaire Elon Musk and fellow billionaire Jeff Bezos of Amazon.
The UK corporation plans for its worldwide industrial net service to be operational by next year, supported by some 650 satellites.
Arianespace, which has worked with Russia for close to two decades, is below contract to make 16 Soyuz launches amongst December 2020 and the finish of 2022.
With this most current mission, a total of 358 satellites are now in orbit for the constellation, Roscosmos stated.
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