At Vostochny, a "package" of the Soyuz-2 rocket is assembled for the sixth commercial launch06/23/2021 14:18At the Vostochny cosmodrome, specialists from subsidiaries of the State Corporation Roscosmos - the Center for Operation of Ground Space Infrastructure Facilities and the Progress Rocket and Space Center - completed the mechanical assembly cycle of the "package" (first and second stages) of the Soyuz launch vehicle in accordance with the complex preparation schedule. -2.1b ". It was put into storage mode until the start of the launch campaign.The Soyuz-2.1b launch vehicle is intended for the sixth commercial launch from the Vostochny cosmodrome. The launch operator for OneWeb is the European provider of launch services Arianespace together with Starsem under contracts with Glavkosmos (a subsidiary of Roscosmos State Corporation).LEO OneWeb spacecraft are designed to provide terrestrial consumers with high-speed Internet.https://www.roscosmos.ru/31611/
https://ria.ru/20210613/kosmos-1736814636.htmlGoogle translate:QuoteMOSCOW, June 13 - RIA Novosti. The launch of 36 British communication satellites OneWeb can be carried out in October from the Vostochny cosmodrome in case of a delay in sending the Russian automatic station Luna-25 to the Moon, a source in the rocket and space industry told RIA Novosti.Earlier, the general director of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin told RIA Novosti that the launch of Luna-25 from Vostochny could be postponed from October 2021 due to delays in the supply of instruments and testing of the station. He later clarified that the start could be postponed to early 2022."If the start of Luna-25 is shifted from October 2021 to May 2022, then on October 7 a Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket with 36 OneWeb satellites will be launched from Vostochny," the source said.Another agency source confirmed this information.
MOSCOW, June 13 - RIA Novosti. The launch of 36 British communication satellites OneWeb can be carried out in October from the Vostochny cosmodrome in case of a delay in sending the Russian automatic station Luna-25 to the Moon, a source in the rocket and space industry told RIA Novosti.Earlier, the general director of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin told RIA Novosti that the launch of Luna-25 from Vostochny could be postponed from October 2021 due to delays in the supply of instruments and testing of the station. He later clarified that the start could be postponed to early 2022."If the start of Luna-25 is shifted from October 2021 to May 2022, then on October 7 a Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket with 36 OneWeb satellites will be launched from Vostochny," the source said.Another agency source confirmed this information.
Source: One of the OneWeb satellite launches from Baikonur postponed.03:09 06/21/2021Source: one of the OneWeb satellite launches from Baikonur was postponed to 2022 for the sake of economyMOSCOW, June 21 - RIA Novosti. One of the four launches of British communications satellites OneWeb from the Baikonur cosmodrome , planned in 2021, has been postponed until next year to save money, a source in the rocket and space industry told RIA Novosti.In April, another agency source reported that launches on behalf of OneWeb from Baikonur this year are slated for August 2 and 26, September 18 and the end of December."Now the schedule is as follows: August 2, September 9 and the end of December. One launch has been postponed until 2022 in order not to pay additional money to Kazakhstan for using the area of the fall of the first stage of the Soyuz-2 launch vehicle," the agency's source said.Another source confirmed this information, adding that the deployment of the OneWeb grouping will not be affected by this, since the missing launch is planned to be carried out from the Vostochny cosmodrome on October 7.In June 2021, it became known that the Senate of the Parliament of Kazakhstan approved the ratification of an agreement with Russia on cooperation in the implementation of launches from Baikonur with Soyuz-2 missiles of OneWeb satellites in the northern direction to circumpolar orbits. It regulates the procedure for the use by the Russian side of the area of the fall of the first stage of the Soyuz-2 in the Kostanay region of Kazakhstan . According to it, the fee for using the fall area number 120A will be 460 thousand dollars per year, taking into account no more than three launches, and in the case of additional launches, the payment is made in the amount of 50 thousand dollars for each additional launch.The contract between Arianespace and OneWeb for 21 launches of Soyuz rockets from the Baikonur, Vostochny and Kuru cosmodromes was signed in June 2015. In September 2020, OneWeb announced that the number of contracted Soyuz launches had been reduced to 19. Seven had already been completed: two from Baikonur, four from Vostochny and one from Kuru, 218 satellites were launched into orbit.OneWeb intends to begin providing commercial satellite communications services in late 2021, and by the end of 2022, it intends to deploy a constellation of 648 first-generation satellites, which will provide broadband Internet access to users around the world thanks to full coverage of the Earth's surface .https://ria.ru/20210621/sputnik-1737834226.html
Upper stage "Fregat" was transported to a filling and neutralization station on Vostochny09/07/2021 15:50...https://www.roscosmos.ru/32474/
РОСКОСМОС@roscosmosA new batch of 36 @OneWeb satellites was delivered to Ignatievo airport (Blagoveshchensk, Russia) by an An-124-100 aircraft.The specialists of the #Vostochny Space Center will transport the satellites to the cosmodrome today. The launch is scheduled for next month!
