The next batch, 34 British OneWeb satellites, were delivered into space by the Russian Soyuz rocket and the Fregat-M upper stage, TASS reports.

“Confirmation of separation of the ninth part of the payload. And this is the last branch in the course of the VS27 mission with OneWeb satellites, ”the message says.

The rocket with British satellites on board was launched from the Kourou spaceport, located in the French department of Guiana.

Earlier, production of a competitor to OneWeb satellites began in Russia.

The task of the Skif satellite network will be to provide broadband Internet access services.

On December 5, 2021, the Russian Soyuz-ST-B launch vehicle with the Fregat upper stage and two Galileo navigation satellites successfully launched from the Kourou cosmodrome in French Guiana. The head of Roskosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, said that in 2022 four rocket launches are planned from the French cosmodrome.

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