On the Gwiang Space Center (French Guian), the Union-St-B to the starting position of the Soyuz-St-B, which is intended to withdraw the next batch of 34 ONEWEB spacecraft to the orbit. On Monday, February 7, 2022, work began on the schedule of the first starting day.
As part of the first starting day, operations on the docking of the pneumatic and filling communications “Package” (first and second steps) of the rocket and assembly of the control system schemes, measurement systems and media thermostatting systems are carried out. In addition, on Monday, work on the docking of the rocket with the cosmic head part of the accelerated block “Fregat-M” and spacecraft will begin. A feature of the preparation of a start-up in the Gwi-Space Center is the separate transportation of the rocket (assembly of three steps) and the cosmic head part with their subsequent assembly on the starting unit using a mobile service tower.
Preparation of the launch vehicle and the work of the terrestrial equipment supplied by the Russian side is provided by the specialists of the subsidiaries of the state corporation “Roskosmos”. Start will conduct joint Russian-European launchers. The operator is the European supplier of Arianespace launch services, and from the Russian side the head contract integrator in the project is the company “Glavkosmos” (part of the state corporation “Roscosmos”), providing at all stages the interaction of enterprises of the Russian space industry with Arianespace.
Start of the Soyuz-St-B Mare rocket is scheduled for February 10, 2022 at 21:09:37 Moscow time. Currently, there are 394 ONEWB communication satellite on an near-earth orbit and the upcoming launch will bring their number to 428. The OneWeb missions for 2022, in which the Russian Soyuz-2.1B carrier missile will be used, will allow the Company to proceed to the provision of services on The whole world is already this year.
For OneWeb, this launch will be the thirteenth, made using Russian Soyuz-2 carrier missiles and the second, made from the Gwyan Space Center, five launches were performed from the Baikonur cosmodrome, six more – from the newest Russian cosmodrome eastern.