34 British satellites launched to provide internet

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The Russian Soyuz rocket, carrying 34 new satellites, was successfully launched today by the British operator OneWeb, which is deploying its group of satellites to provide high-speed internet all over the world.

"The rocket successfully took off from the Russian Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan," the French press agency quoted the Russian space agency, Roscosmos, as saying in a statement today, noting that this is the fifth satellite launch carried out for Wan Webb this year, after a first operation on July 1.

A total of 288 satellites from this constellation are now in orbit around the Earth.

The British government's OneWeb, in partnership with Indian Bharti, intends to operate a global Internet network by the end of 2022, based on 650 satellites.

And SpaceX, owned by billionaire Elon Musk, has already put into orbit more than 1,500 satellites for this purpose in the context of the Starlink network.