36 spacecraft of OneWeb arrived at Ignatievo Airport (Blagoveshchensk) by plane An-124-100. Specialists of the Space Center “East” (a branch of the center of exploitation of objects of ground-based space infrastructure is included in the state corporation “Roskosmos”) delivered space load on the cosmodrome.
Today, on May 7, 2021, their preparation began to launch as scheduled for May using Russian deviations: Soyuz-2.1B launch vehicles (production of the Progress Rocket and Space Center) with the Frigate Acid Block ( Production of the Scientific and Production Association named after S.A. Lavochkin).
To date, the grouping of OneWeb satellites at a low near-earth orbit has 182 spacecraft, it is planned to launch hundreds of others. The upcoming launch must bring the number of ONEB spacecraft in orbit up to 218. OneWeb low-bit satellites are designed to provide ground consumers with high-speed Internet directly through satellite communications.