In a given area of the fall of the first stage of the carrier rocket on April 26, 2021, 4 hours after the successful start of the Soyuz-2.1B carrier missile from the Eastern cosmodrome, all four side blocks were detected by the air search group.
At the moment, the specialists of the center of exploitation of ground-based space infrastructure (Roskosmos state corporation) are conducted by environmental events – sampling of snow and soil, and the sites are cleared to prepare for evacuation of fragments and sending them to the cosmodrome.
The peculiarity of the past start was the significant destruction of one of the blocks during the fall and, as a result, a large fragmentation of fragments, which will increase the scope of work on the collection and environmental support, which will continue without a break until mid-May 2021.
Start of the Soyuz-2.1b media missile with an overclocking unit “Frigate” and 36 satellite spacecraft of OneWeb took place on April 26, 2021. This launch became the third fully commercial with the Eastern cosmodrome, implemented by order of the European Supplier of the Arianespace and the Russian-French company “Starmember” for the Operator of the innovative satellite group of the OneWeb.