Goskomissia Following the meeting on the Baikonur cosmodrome gave permission for the launch of the Soyuz-2.1b missile after two transfer. This is reported in the Telegram channel of the state corporation “Roskosmos”.
The solution was made after eliminating the detected fault. Start of the launch vehicle with 34 ONEWEB communication satellites is scheduled for the second backup date – August 22 at 01:13 Moscow time.
before that the start was transferred twice. On August 19, the team’s cancellation team was given a few seconds before the start due to a failure in the work of Russian equipment of the starting complex. On August 20, OneWeb asked to postpone the start due to a fault in the Satellite Control Software Software software.
OneWeb plans to complete the deployment of a satellite grouping for global providing ground consumers with high-speed Internet by June 2022. According to the company, the grouping at a low near-earth orbit will consist of 648 satellites, now in extraterrestrial space there are 254 devices.