Russia launches 36 UK telecom satellites from Vostochny, aims to provide fast broadband

On December 18, Russia launched a fleet of 36 satellite into targeted orbit on a Soyuz launch vehicle from Vostochny Cosmodrome. historic launch at 12:26 GMT was a part of UK government and Indian conglomerate Bharti Global’s operator OneWeb’s 648 Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite programme which will provide fast, high-speed, low-latency global connectivity.  Friday’s launch brought total in-orbit launch to 110 satellites. “Today’s launch is one of many steps we have taken to operationalize one of world’s first LEO constellations which clearly demonstrates we are on our way to achieving our mission,” Founder and Chairman of Bharti Enterprises, Sunil Bharti Mittal said in a statement. 

satellite communications company streamed lift-off live as satellites detached from rocket and dispensed within 3 hours 52 minutes in at least nine batches. launch of new batch was a contract signed between French company Ariane , Russia’s Roscosmos, NPO Lavochkina, and Center for Operation of Ground-Based Infrastructure Facilities.

As company w prepares for at least 50 more satellite launches to complete project, it hopes to make fast internet available to UK customers in 2021 and in India by mid-2022. In months ahe, all satellites launched at an altitude of 450 km need to be maneuvered at least 1,200 km above Earth, which scientists will monitor.  WebOne informed that se satellites will enable global services in Alaska, rrn Europe, Greenland, Iceland, Arctic Seas, and Cana in 2021 apart from just UK. 

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Fast broband globally

“It’s inspiring to be part of a fast-returning organization refocused on our mission of bringing connectivity to everyone, everywhere. Each launch moves us closer to our goal of building this much needed global, secure, trusted, enterprise-gre broband network, powered from . We look forward to offering our commercial services to global users,” OneWeb CEO, Neil Masterson said. According to  Chairman of Bharti Enterprises, coronavirus pandemic has created an overwhelming demand for fast broband service globally. refore, OneWeb aims to deliver broband connectivity to communities, towns, and regions left unconnected or under-connected.

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