Soyuz Rocket Launches 34 OneWeb Satellites Written 23 March 2020

Spaceflight Now reported that a Soyuz “rocket and Fregat upper stage lifted off Saturday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, delivering 34 more satellites to orbit for OneWeb’s space-based Internet network in the company’s second launch this year.” The “Fregat carried a multi-payload dispenser produced by RUAG Space in Sweden, which released the 34 satellites in groups of two or four.” OneWeb “is one of two companies currently launching large constellations of satellites into low Earth orbit to beam Internet signals to consumers around the world,” with the other being SpaceX. Arianspace CEO Stéphane Israël said, “I am very proud of the teams at Arianespace, Starsem and their partners here in Baikonur and also in French Guiana for having performed four successful launches within a 10-week period, including two on behalf of OneWeb.
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