A Russian missile carries 36 satellites from Britain's OneWeb into space

Moscow-Sana

The Ross Cosmos Foundation announced that the Russian Vostochny Space Airport will witness the launch of a new batch of British OneWeb satellites today.

A statement issued by the Foundation today said, “A Russian (Soyuz 2.1B) missile is supposed to launch from Vostochny Space Airport carrying a Free Gate unit, which will transport 36 satellites to Earth orbits from OneWeb satellites,” explaining that “and after the missile is launched "To space, in 9 minutes, its upper stage carrying satellites will be separated from its main body, and the Free Gate unit will continue on its way to place the satellites in their specific orbits."

For its part, Ariane Space, which supervises the launch, indicated that the process of separating the satellites from the FreeGate unit to place them in their required orbits will take place in stages and will take 3 hours and 51 minutes.

This launch will be the seventh launch of OneWeb satellites in general and the fourth complete commercial launch from Russia's Vostochny Space Airport.

OneWeb is planning to launch a system of small and medium-sized satellites to orbit at heights ranging between 800 and 950 km from the surface of the earth, and cover most of its areas with a fast-performance Internet.