On the Baikonur cosmodrome, work began to prepare for the launch of the Soyuz-2.1b missile, with the ONEWEB satellite spacecraft and spacecraft of the OneWeb satellite company under Mission No. 37. In the installation and test corps of the site No. 31, a staff preparation is carried out. Overclocking block “frigate” production of the SA Science and Production Association Lavochkin (part of the state corporation “Roskosmos”).
In accordance with the schedule, the scheme was assembled, pneumatic and electrical tests. Specialists of the South Space Center (branch of the center of exploitation of land space infrastructure facilities include Roscosmos) and NGOs Lavochkina.
Start of the Soyuz-2.1b media missile with an overclocking unit “Frigate” and OneWeb spacecraft is scheduled for the end of December from the starting complex “East” of the Baikonur cosmodrome. OneWeb satellites are designed to create a space system of communication providing high-speed Internet access at any point of the planet. The orbital group will consist of 18 planes of 36 devices in each.
The first six satellites of OneWeb went into space from the cosmodrome in the Gwiang Space Center on the Soyuz-Art Rocket February 28, 2019. From Baikonur on February 7, 2020, 34 apparatus were bred, on March 21 – as much as much. For the first time with Eastern OneWeb, they launched in mid-December 2020 – then 36 devices were displayed. Then the launches from the new Russian cosmodrome took place on March 25, April 26, May 28, July 1 and October 14, 2021, from Baikonur – August 22 and September 14, 2021.