On the East Cosmodrome in the Amur Region, a meeting of the State Commission on the conduct of flight tests of the removal of spacecraft was held on readiness for exportation on the starting complex and carrying out work on preparing for the launch of the Soyuz-2.1b missile preparing as part of the Mission of OneWeb No. 49 .
According to the results of the reports, the members of the State Commission decided to export the space appointment rocket Soyuz-2.1B / Frigate / OneWeb from the installation and test case and the installation at the starting system October 11, 2021. The start of transportation work on the starting complex is scheduled at 01:00 Moscow time (07:00 on the local), after which the joint settlement of specialists of the state corporation “Roskosmos” will begin work on the schedule of the first starting day. Today and tomorrow there will be an active preparation for the reception of the rocket of space purposes.
Running 36 new spacecraft of OneWeb is scheduled for October 14, 2021 at 12:40 Moscow time. It will be the sixth fully commercial start from the Russian cosmodrome East, implemented under the Glavkosmos contracts (part of the Roskosmos State Corporation) with the European Supplier of Arianespace Start Services (Operator of the OneWeb Space Actors using the Soyuz-2 carrier missile) and Starsem For OneWeb from the Russian cosmodrome. ONEWB spacecraft are designed to create a space system of communication providing high-speed Internet access at any point of the Earth.