General Director of Glavkosmos Dmitry Loskutov (part of the state corporation “Roscosmos”) talks about contracts of the company for 2022.
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– How many starts of the ONEWEB satellites is expected next year? The main part will be with Baikonur? Other cosmodromes will be involved?
– It is planned that in 2022 there will be 7 launches of ONEWEB spacecraft, while one start is expected from the Gwyan Space Center, and six more – from the Baikonur cosmodrome. In accordance with the current contract for 2022, all the launches of ONEWEB spacecraft were planned from the Baikonur cosmodrome while we focus on it.
– When is the first launch of the OneWeb satellites in 2022?
– The first launch of ONEB spacecraft is planned to be carried out from the Gwian Space Center in February 2022.
– How many launches in the contracts are expected next year?
– It is always difficult to talk about the plans, especially, the execution of which depends largely on our foreign partners. At the moment, on current contracts, we focus on 11 launches of spacecraft for various purposes, of which one will have to go easternly, three are scheduled to implement from the GCC, one of them mentioned is the launch of ONEWB spacecraft. Most of the seven launches – we are planning to implement from the Baikonur cosmodrome.
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Glavkosmos is a subsidiary of Roscosmos State Corporation. The main task of the company is to promote the achievements of the Russian rocket and space industry to world markets and management of comprehensive international projects. For more than a thirty-five-year-old history of the company, more than 140 international contracts have been successfully implemented, including more than 170 spacecraft are launched as a passing payload. Since May 2021, Glavkosmos is the official operator of Roskosmos trademarks.
OneWeb low-bit spacecraft are designed to provide terrestrial consumers with high-speed Internet. At present, the OneWeb satellites group at a low near-earth orbit consists of 394 spacecraft, the company plans to launch a few more hundreds.