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A great thread about the news of and discussion about the OneWeb constellation is here: OneWeb constellation

And for the previous OneWeb launches:
Soyuz-STB/Fregat-M (VS21) - OneWeb (x6) - (21:37 UTC) February 27, 2019 [from Kourou]

Soyuz-2-1b/Fregat - OneWeb Fl. 2 (x34) - Baikonur - Feb 6, 2020, 21:42 UTC

Soyuz-2-1b/Fregat - OneWeb Fl. 3 (x34) - Baikonur - March 21, 2020, 17:06 UTC

Soyuz-2.1b/Fregat - OneWeb F4 (x36) - Vostochny - December 18, 2020 (12:26 UTC)

Soyuz-2.1b/Fregat - OneWeb F5 (x36) - Vostochny - 25 March 2021 (02:47 UTC)

Soyuz-2.1b/Fregat - OneWeb F6 (x36) - Vostochny - 25 April 2021 (22:14 UTC)

Soyuz-2.1b/Fregat - OneWeb F7 (x36) - Vostochny - 28 May 2021 (17:38 UTC)

Soyuz-2.1b/Fregat - OneWeb F8 (x36) - Vostochny - 1 July 2021 (12:48 UTC)

Soyuz-2.1b/Fregat - OneWeb F9 (x34) - Baikonur - 21 August 2021 (22:13 UTC)

Soyuz-2.1b/Fregat - OneWeb F10 (x34) - Baikonur - 14 September 2021 (18:07 UTC)

Soyuz-2.1b/Fregat - OneWeb F11 (x36) - Vostochny - 14 October 2021 (09:40 UTC)

Upcoming Launches:
Soyuz-ST-B/Fregat-MT VS27 - OneWeb F13 (x34) - 6 January 2022 [from Kourou]

Soyuz-2.1b/Fregat - OneWeb F14 (x34-36) - Baikonur - 27 January 2022

Soyuz-ST-B/Fregat-MT VS28 - OneWeb F15? (x34) - February 2022 [from Kourou]


Cross-posts; my bold:

https://tass.ru/kosmos/10565159
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MOSCOW, January 28. / TASS /. Roscosmos plans to carry out eight launches under the OneWeb program from the Baikonur, Vostochny and Kuru cosmodromes. This was announced to TASS by the Deputy General Director of Roscosmos for International Cooperation Sergei Savelyev.
"Three spacecraft launches [each] are planned from the Baikonur and Vostochny cosmodromes within the framework of the OneWeb project," Saveliev said.
According to the deputy general director, two cluster launches are also planned from the Kourou cosmodrome in French Guiana.

https://tass.ru/kosmos/10565073
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"In 2021, the Russian side plans to carry out 10 launches with Soyuz-2 and Soyuz-ST carrier rockets in the interests of foreign customers," Saveliev said.
According to the deputy general director of the state corporation, four of them will pass from the Baikonur cosmodrome and three each from Vostochny and Kuru (French Guiana). At the same time, the launch of the apparatus of the European global satellite navigation system Galileo is expected from the Kuru cosmodrome.
In the second quarter of 2021, the launch of the Earth remote sensing spacecraft CAS500-1 is planned from Baikonur in the interests of the Republic of Korea with a group of 34 foreign and Russian spacecraft launched as an associated payload.

Three 36 OneWeb satellite cluster launches from Vostochny--a match between the two PRs.

Four launches from Baikonur: the CAS500-1 rideshare flight, and three 34 OneWeb satellite cluster launches.

Apparently, the CAS500-2 rideshare flight is delayed into 2022?

https://ria.ru/20210420/raketa-1729024386.html

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The dates of all commercial launches of Soyuz missiles from Russian cosmodromes scheduled for 2021 have been tentatively determined; the dates of launches from Baikonur have been added to the previously indicated launch dates for the British OneWeb satellites from Vostochny: August 2 and 26, September 18 and at the end of December, RIA Novosti reported two source in the rocket and space industry.

The first launch of Soyuz-2 in 2021 with 36 OneWeb devices from Vostochny was carried out on March 25. The next launch from the Vostochny cosmodrome, according to the customer, Arianespace , is scheduled for the night of April 26. As a source in the rocket and space industry told RIA Novosti earlier, launches on May 27 and July 1 will follow.

"The next four cluster launches of 34 devices each will be made from Baikonur on August 2 and 26, September 18 and December 23, 2021," the agency's source said.

Another informed source confirmed this information to RIA Novosti, but added that another date is being discussed for the winter launch - December 26.

Earlier, OneWeb reported that the April launch will be dedicated to the 60th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin 's flight into space. The first astronaut of the planet will be depicted on the mission emblem.
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Source: One of the OneWeb satellite launches from Baikonur postponed.

03:09 06/21/2021

Source: one of the OneWeb satellite launches from Baikonur was postponed to 2022 for the sake of economy

MOSCOW, 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 [H1?] 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.
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https://ria.ru/20210621/sputnik-1737834226.html
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Re: December OneWeb launches from Baikonur and Kourou:
ISTR a mention somewhere on the NSF forum that a Fregat launch (support?) team works every Soyuz/Fregat launch.

Travel time for this team sets a limit on how close in time that two Soyuz/Fregat launches at different sites can be.
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Two dispensers and ground support equipment for #OneWeb spacecraft were delivered to Baikonur . The specialists performed their unloading and further transportation to the site No. 112 of the cosmodrome. The next stage of activities is the movement of products to the storage location

https://twitter.com/roscosmos/status/1439219129047736325

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Dispensers and ground equipment delivered for OneWeb devices

09/18/2021 16:23

On Friday, September 17, 2021, two dispensers and ground support equipment for OneWeb spacecraft of two upcoming missions: No. 37 and 38 were delivered to the Baikonur cosmodrome. A group of containers with technical items arrived at the Krainy airport by an Il-76 aircraft.

Specialists of the Yuzhny Space Center (a branch of the Center for Operation of Ground-Based Space Infrastructure Objects, part of the Roscosmos State Corporation) performed their unloading and further transportation to site No. 112 of the Baikonur cosmodrome. The next stage of technological measures is the movement of products to the storage location.

LEO OneWeb spacecraft are designed to provide terrestrial consumers with high-speed Internet. The company intends to begin providing commercial satellite communications services in late 2021, and by June 2022, it intends to deploy a constellation of 648 first-generation satellites, which will provide broadband Internet access to users around the world through full coverage of the Earth's surface.

https://www.roscosmos.ru/32628/

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Cross-post; this would be the first flight (possibly) affected; my bold:
https://tass.ru/kosmos/12189183
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MOSCOW, August 22. / TASS /. Flight trajectories from the Baikonur cosmodrome during the launches of the British communications satellites OneWeb will be modified to increase the number of vehicles launched at a time. This is stated in the message of Roskosmos, distributed on Sunday.
"Currently, work is underway to optimize flight trajectories from Baikonur, taking into account the fact that the size of the satellites is slightly larger than expected," the message says.
As specified in the state corporation, research is being carried out to launch 36 OneWeb spacecraft from Baikonur, and not 34, as at present. Now 36 such satellites can be launched into orbit from the Vostochny cosmodrome. "This difference is due to the higher energy characteristics of the rocket within the given inclination and the full correspondence of the areas of fall of the stages of the carrier", - noted in Roskosmos.
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Cross-post:
The December launch of OneWeb from Baikonur is no longer in the list of launches in 2021.
https://t.me/s/rogozin_do/1113
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Cross-post; my bold:
https://ria.ru/20211014/raketa-1754536685.html
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Today's launch was the 17th launch of Russian space rockets in 2021, and in total, according to Rogozin, 29 are planned.
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Earlier, the press service of the Glavkosmos company (a subsidiary of Roscosmos) told RIA Novosti that in 2021 from the Baikonur, Vostochny and Kuru sites, 8 to 10 launches of Soyuz rockets with OneWeb satellites are planned, of which seven have already been completed. ... As sources in the rocket and space industry clarified to the agency, the next launch is expected from Baikonur on December 27, from the Kuru cosmodrome on January 6, 2022, and then on January 27 again from Baikonur.
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At the Baikonur Cosmodrome, preparations began for the launch of a Soyuz-2.1b launch vehicle with a Fregat upper stage and spacecraft from the satellite company OneWeb as part of mission 37. In the assembly and testing facility at pad 31 is preparing the upper stage "Fregat" manufactured by the Lavochkin Research and Production Association (part of the State Corporation Roscosmos).

Schematic assembly, pneumatic-vacuum and electrical tests were performed according to schedule. Specialists of Yuzhny Space Center (a branch of the Center for Ground-Based Space Infrastructure Facilities Operation, part of Roscosmos) and NPO Lavochkin took part in the work.

The launch of a Soyuz-2.1b rocket with a Fregat upper stage and OneWeb satellites is scheduled for the end of December from the Vostok launch site at Baikonur Cosmodrome. The OneWeb satellites are intended to create a space communication system that will provide high-speed Internet access anywhere on the planet. The orbital constellation will consist of 18 planes with 36 satellites each.

The first six OneWeb satellites went into space from the Guiana Space Center on a Soyuz-ST rocket on Feb. 28, 2019. Thirty-four satellites were launched from Baikonur on Feb. 7, 2020, and an equal number more on March 21. For the first time from Vostochny OneWeb was launched in mid-December 2020 - then 36 spacecraft were launched. Launches from the new Russian Baikonur Cosmodrome took place on March 25, April 26, May 28, July 1 and October 14, 2021; from Baikonur - on August 22 and September 14, 2021.

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https://twitter.com/roscosmos/status/1455550325876740105

The Baikonur Cosmodrome is preparing for the December launch of OneWeb spacecraft as part of mission 37

Fregat upper stage is being prepared in the assembly and test facility: assembly of circuits, pneumatic-vacuum and electrical tests
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Still an open question: 34 or 36 OneWeb satellites?
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Next launch of OneWeb satellites scheduled for late December from Baikonur spaceport.

This year, Roscosmos carried out five OneWeb satellite launches from the Vostochny spaceport in the Russian Far East.

2 NOV, 09:27

MOSCOW, November 2. /TASS/. The next launch of British OneWeb communications satellites from the Baikonur spaceport in Kazakhstan is scheduled for the end of this year, Russia’s federal space agency Roscosmos announced on Tuesday.

"The launch of a Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket with a Fregat booster and OneWeb satellites is scheduled for the end of December from the Vostok launch pad of the Baikonur Cosmodrome," Roscosmos said in a statement.

A source in the Russian space industry earlier told TASS that the launch of OneWeb satellites was scheduled for December 27.

This year, Roscosmos carried out most of OneWeb satellite launches (five) from the Vostochny spaceport in the Russian Far East. Another two launches were conducted from the Baikonur space center where the Soyuz-2.1b rocket with OneWeb satellites is scheduled to lift off on December 27.

OneWeb’s renewed agreement with the French Arianespace stipulates the lift-off of 16 Russian Soyuz carrier rockets from the Kourou, Vostochny and Baikonur spaceports in 2020-2022. Each launch allows orbiting 34-36 OneWeb satellites. Roscosmos Chief Dmitry Rogozin told reporters on April 9 that the OneWeb first generation cluster would be established in late 2022 - early 2023.

British OneWeb satellites are designed to create a space-based communications system to provide high-speed Internet access in any locality worldwide.

https://tass.com/science/1357163






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Still an open question: 34 or 36 OneWeb satellites?
From Baikonur always 34 satellites.

(Vostochny 36 satellites)
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Still an open question: 34 or 36 OneWeb satellites?
From Baikonur always 34 satellites.

(Vostochny 36 satellites)

Question is valid since nothing is sure. Reminder :

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Launches from the Vostochny cosmodrome make it possible to launch a larger number of satellites into orbit by the Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket - 36 versus 34 for launches from Baikonur. This difference is due to the higher energy characteristics of the rocket within the given inclination and the full correspondence of the areas of fall of the stages of the carrier. Currently, work is underway to optimize flight trajectories from Baikonur, taking into account the fact that the size of the satellites is slightly larger than anticipated. Research is being carried out in order to launch 36 OneWeb spacecraft from Baikonur, as well as from Vostochny.

https://www.roscosmos.ru/32239/

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36 according to the launch schedule from work

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From the territory of NPO Lavochkin, three upper stages "Fregat" were sent to two Russian cosmodromes:

Baikonur - for two launch campaigns #OneWeb

https://twitter.com/roscosmos/status/1457968164646576129

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https://www.roscosmos.ru/33370/

 Preparation of the Fregat upper stage continues at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in accordance with the integrated work schedule for the OneWeb spacecraft launch program. At present, pneumatic-vacuum tests are being conducted, as well as evaluation of telemetry information.

Technological operations are being carried out by specialists of the Yuzhny Space Center (a branch of the Ground-Based Space Infrastructure Facilities Operation Center) and of Lavochkin Research and Production Association (affiliated with Roscosmos State Corporation) in the assembly and testing facility at pad 31. After the final operations it will be transported to the refueling-neutralization station and the refueling itself.

The upper stage "Fregat" manufactured by Research and Production Association named after S.A. Lavochkin is being prepared for launching the 37th mission of OneWeb spacecraft. The launch of the Soyuz-2.1b launch vehicle is scheduled for the end of December from Baikonur Cosmodrome.

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At the Baikonur cosmodrome, the preparation of the Fregat upper stage under the #OneWeb mission # 37 spacecraft launch program continues . Now pneumatic vacuum tests are underway, as well as the evaluation of telemetric information. Launch - at the end of December

https://twitter.com/roscosmos/status/1460849307846852612

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Volga-Dnepr AN-124 RA-82079 was in Titusville at the NASA Shuttle Landing Facility and flew to Goose Bay...
I think further towards Moscow and Baikonur with OneWeb satellites on board.

https://flightaware.com/live/flight/RA82079

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A new batch of #OneWeb spacecraft of mission No. 37 was delivered to the Baikonur cosmodrome . The next stage of activities is the preparation of the vehicles at the technical complex.

Their launch from site number 31 is scheduled for late December

https://twitter.com/roscosmos/status/1465680716902055940

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A new batch of OneWeb spacecraft delivered to Baikonur

11/30/2021 17:11

On Tuesday, November 30, 2021, a new batch of OneWeb spacecraft were delivered to the Baikonur cosmodrome as part of mission 37. They arrived at the Krainy airport by An-124 aircraft.

Specialists of the Yuzhny Space Center (a branch of the Center for Operation of Ground-Based Space Infrastructure Facilities, part of the Roscosmos State Corporation) unloaded spacecraft and further transported them to site No. 112 of the Baikonur cosmodrome. The next stage of technological measures is the preparation of devices at the technical complex.

The launch of the Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket with the Fregat upper stage and OneWeb spacecraft is scheduled for the end of December from the Vostok launch complex of site No. 31. OneWeb low-orbit spacecraft are designed to provide ground-based consumers with high-speed Internet.

The first six OneWeb satellites flew into space from the launch site at the Guiana Space Center on a Soyuz-ST rocket on February 28, 2019. 34 devices were withdrawn from Baikonur on February 7, 2020, and the same number on March 21. For the first time, OneWeb was launched from the East in mid-December 2020 - then 36 devices were withdrawn. Then launches from the new Russian cosmodrome took place on March 25, April 26, May 28, July 1 and October 14, 2021, from Baikonur on August 22 and September 14, 2021.

https://www.roscosmos.ru/33502/

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