Start of the Soyuz-2.1b launch vehicle with British Communication Satellites ONEWEB, which was scheduled for August 5, was transferred due to a failure in land equipment, reports RIA Novosti with reference to a source in the rocket and space industry.
“40 seconds before starting the automation gave a pen due to the detected remarks to the operation of the ground starting complex. There are no comments to the carrier rocket,” the agency’s interlocutor noted.
Start of the “Union” with an overclocking unit “Frigate” and 36 ONEWEB satellites was produced on July 1 from the eastern cosmodrome. In May, the commercial director of OneWeb in Russia, Mikhail Kaigorodov, said that the British satellite Internet operator technically earn in Russia at the end of 2021.