MOSCOW, 14 Sep. The Soyuz-2.1b launch vehicle with the Fregat upper stage launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome at 21:07 Moscow time to launch 34 British communications satellites OneWeb into orbit. Broadcast is on the Roscosmos website. announced the announcer. This command means that the electrical connectors connecting the rocket to the ground equipment have undocked.
Rogozin replied to the owner of Buran, who threatened Roskosmos with a court At 21:16 Moscow time, Fregat with satellites on a suborbital flight path separated from the third stage of the rocket. … Separation of satellites is planned in nine stages at different points of the orbit in the interval from 22:19 Moscow time to 00:52 Moscow time on September 15th. According to the plan, the entire mission from launch to separation of the last satellite should take three hours and 45 minutes. This launch was the 15th launch of the Russian space rockets in 2021. In total, as stated by the general director of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin, 29 launches are scheduled. At the same time, this is the hundredth launch of the Fregat upper stage, the first flight of which took place in February 2000. During 21 years of operation, the blocks of this family have delivered 653 satellites into space. In several cases, the Frigates rescued missions after non-nominal flights of the Soyuz missiles, helping to deliver the vehicles to the calculated orbits at the expense of the fuel supply. In two decades, there was only one accident: in August 2014, due to the failure of the upper stage, two European Galileo navigation devices were launched into an off-design orbit.
The Ministry of Defense has filed a lawsuit against the manufacturer of carrier rockets Soyuz. at the end of 2021, and by June 2022, it intends to deploy a constellation of 648 satellites of the first generation, which will provide broadband Internet access to users around the world due to full coverage of the Earth's surface.
