On the Baikonur cosmodrome on December 21-22, 2021, the South Space Center (branch of the center of exploitation of land space infrastructure) and the branch of the Progress Roscate Center (both enterprises of Roskosmos) conducted a general assembly of the Soyuz-2.1 rocket assembly b / frigate / oneWeb as part of Mission number 37. This time under the fairing is 36 spacecraft.
In the course of pre-scheduled works on Tuesday, a space head side was docked (overclocking “Frigate” and OneWeb devices under the fairing shoes) with the third stage of the “Soyuz-2.1b” rocket. Today, this assembly was dragged to the “package” of the carrier (consisting of the first and second steps). At the end of the operation, an electrical compound assembly was built and pipelines for thermostatization were mounted.
Currently, the Soyuz-2.1B / Frigate / OneWeB / OneWeb / OneWeb / OneWeb is installed on the removal of the starting complex. There are no comments on the preparation of components at the moment. On December 23, it is planned to hold a meeting of the Commission on readiness for the removal of rockets on the starting complex “East” site number 31.
Start of the Soyuz-2.1b media missile with an overclocking unit “Frigate” and 36 ONEWEB spacecraft is scheduled at 16:10 Moscow time on December 27, 2021. It will take place within the framework of the contracts of Glavkosmos (a subsidiary of Roskosmos) with the European Supplier of the Arianespace launch services (Operator of the OneWeb spacecraft using the Soyuz-2 rocket) and Starsem.
ONEWB spacecraft are designed to create a space system of communication providing high-speed Internet access at any point of the Earth. OneWeb intends to deploy a low-bit group consisting of more than 600 satellites for the ubiquitous provision of high-speed broadband Internet access services in the KU-range, whose clients must be primarily able to communicate Wi-Fi, LTU or 5G, as well as Internet providers.