on Thursday, February 10, 2022, at 21:09:37 Moscow time, joint settlements of Russian and European specialists have completed the launch of the “Soyuz-St-B” missile with an overclocking unit “Fregat-M” and 34 spacecraft OneWeb from the Gwian Space Center. This start has already been thirteenth under the OneWeb joint program.
Nine minutes after the start, the head unit in the composition of the accelerated unit and spacecraft in the regular mode separated from the third stage of the carrier. For 3.5 hours, oneWeb satellites in accordance with the flight cyclicogram will be alternately separated from the Russian “Profiter”.
Roscosmos State Corporation is responsible for the implementation of the program “The Union” in the Gwiank Space Center “from the Russian side and coordinates work with domestic enterprises of the rocket and space industry, involved in the program. The company’s head contract integrator of Russian cooperation in this project is the company” Glavkosmos “(part of the state corporation” Roscosmos “), providing interaction with Arianespace.
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The Soyuz-St-Staja rocket was developed at the Progress Rocket and Space Center (Samara, is part of the Roskosmos State Corporation) on the basis of the Soyuz-2 missile. It is designed to ensure the launches of spacecraft from the Gwyan Space Center. This rocket is adapted to the requirements of the CCC in terms of security, telecision systems and operating conditions. In addition, it is equipped with the relevant international requirements of the head fairing type “ST”, which, combined with the use of an accelerated block of the Fregat family, will ensure a wide range of payloads to the orbit.