Cosmodrome The Eastern started the “Soyuz-2.1b” missile with an overclocking unit “Frigate” and 36 ONEWEB satellites. The corresponding broadcast is conducted by Roskosmos.
Start took place at 15:48 Moscow time. This start became the fifth fully commercial start, produced from the East.
In June, the general director of Roskosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, said that the implementation of the Russian Space Program “Sphere”, partial “analogues” of which are Western projects Starlink and OneWeb, will cost 800 billion rubles.
In May, the commercial director of OneWeb in Russia, Mikhail Kaygorodov, said that the British satellite Internet operator technically earn in Russia at the end of 2021.
In February 2019, Dmitry Bakanov, taking the position of the Genza general director, stated that the standard regulatory requirements of the Federal Security Service (FSB) to OneWeb are reduced to the electromagnetic compatibility of this system with Russian and the analysis of the probability of creating interference for their work, as well as Issues to ensure the system of operational and search measures.
In October 2018, the representative of the FSB, Vladimir Sadovnikov, spoke about the need to limit access to the project of high-speed satellite Internet of OneWeb for security reasons.