Baikonur’s cosmodrome continues the preparation of the space header over the OneWeb device launch program. On Tuesday, September 7, 2021, a bunch of 34 ONWEB spacecraft, installed on an accelerating unit “Frigate” under the head fairing, was overloaded from the workplace of the installation and test area of the site No. 112 to the railway unit and transported to the site number 31.
Works are performed by specialists of the South Space Center (branch of the center of exploitation of objects of ground-based space infrastructure) and the Scientific and Production Association named after S.A. Lavochkina (included in the state corporation “Roskosmos”). The next stage of preparation is the docking of the head part with the third stage of the Soyuz-2.1B carrier missile.
The launch of ONEWEB satellite satellite spacecraft is scheduled for September 14, 2021 from the starting complex “East” of the Baikonur cosmodrome.