On the Baikonur cosmodrome, a meeting of the Commission on the launches of ONEWeb spacecraft was held, at which issues of readiness for exporting to the starting range of the Soyuz-2.1B carrier missile.
Commission members decided to export spacecraft rockets as part of the Soyuz-2.1b carrier missile, an overclocking block “Frigate” and 36 ONEWEB spacecraft on the starting complex of the site No. 31 in the morning of December 24, 2021. The beginning of transportation work is scheduled at 05:30 Moscow time (07:30 local), after which specialists of the subsidiaries of the State Corporation Roscosmos will begin work on the schedule of the first starting day.
Running 36 new Space devices of the OneWeb satellite company is scheduled for December 27, 2021 at 16:10 Moscow time. It will become the twelfth of the OneWeb program and the fifth, made from the Baikonur cosmodrome.