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LAUNCH SITEVostochny Cosmodrome, Siberia, Russian Federation
Mission
A batch of 36 satellites for the OneWeb satellite constellation, which is intended to provide global Internet broadband service for individual consumers. The constellation is planned to have around 648 microsatellites (of which 60 are spares), around 150 kg each, operating in Ku-band from low Earth orbit.
- Launch vehicle
- Soyuz 2.1b Fregat-M
- Mission type
- Communications
- Destination orbit
- Polar Orbit
- Launch pad
- Cosmodrome Site 1S
- Provider
- Arianespace
- Programs
- OneWeb
The vehicle
Published configuration and flight history.
Launch vehicle
Soyuz 2.1b Fregat-M
Soyuz-2, GRAU index 14A14, is the collective designation for the 21st-century version of the Russian Soyuz rocket. In its basic form, it is a three-stage carrier rocket for placing payloads into low Earth orbit. The first-stage boosters and two core stages feature uprated engines with improved injection systems, compared to the previous versions of the Soyuz. Digital flight control and telemetry systems allow the rocket to be launched from a fixed launch platform, whereas the launch platforms for earlier Soyuz rockets had to be rotated as the rocket could not perform a roll to change its heading in flight.
- Height
- 46.3 m
- Diameter
- 10.3 m
- Stages
- 4
- Recorded launches
- 34
- First flight
- 2008-07-26
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Launch site & orbit
Vostochny Cosmodrome, Siberia, Russian Federation
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