Friday, June 26, 2015

Roscosmos: cosmodrome Vostochny used to launch satellites British OneWeb – BFM.Ru

Russia from 2017 to 2019 provide for the launch vehicle system of mobile satellite communications OneWeb 21 carrier rocket “Soyuz»

The new Russian cosmodrome Vostochny will be used to perform the contract starts carrier rockets “Soyuz” spacecraft communication with the British company OneWeb, told Tass on Friday, the press service of the Russian Federal Space Agency.

«East will be used to launch” Soyuz “with foreign communication satellites under a contract between the Russian Space Agency, Arianespace and OneWeb », – said a spokesman for the space agency.

According to him, the exact number of commercial launches from the new cosmodrome will be announced later.

As previously reported, Russia from 2017 to 2019 provide for the launch vehicle system of mobile satellite communications OneWeb 21 carrier rocket “Soyuz”. It is planned to launch a height of 1.2 thousand. 672 km satellite base groups. In case of successful realization of the project contract includes an option for at least five starts “Soyuz” after 2020.

Earlier, the press service of the Russian Federal Space Agency reported that at least 15 starts in the period 2017-2019′s conduct from Baikonur .

As the head of the Russian space agency, Igor Komarov, the contract is the largest in the history of the provision of launch services. The agency also stressed that the agreement for the next few years will provide a full load of number of domestic space industry.

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