Soyuz launches OneWeb satellites
Posted: Sat, Oct 16, 2021, 6:09 PM ET (2209 GMT)
A Soyuz rocket launched Thursday with the latest batch of OneWeb satellites. The Soyuz-2.1b rocket lifted off from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia at 5:40 am EDT (0940 GMT). Its payload of 36 OneWeb satellites was deployed over the course of four hours. The launch brings the constellation just past the halfway mark to its full size of 648 satellites.
A Soyuz rocket launched Thursday with the latest batch of OneWeb satellites. The Soyuz-2.1b rocket lifted off from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia at 5:40 am EDT (0940 GMT). Its payload of 36 OneWeb satellites was deployed over the course of four hours. The launch brings the constellation just past the halfway mark to its full size of 648 satellites.
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