WATCH LIVE: Arianespace and Roscosmos to Launch One Web Internet Satellites

A Russian Soyuz rocket will launch 34 satellites into orbit for OneWeb, which is developing a constellation of hundreds of satellites in low Earth orbit for low-latency broadband communications.

Liftoff scheduled on Monday December 27 at 7:20m EST ( 12:20 UTC) from Site 31/6, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan

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Despite Soyuz being a Russian rocket, the launch provider was Arianespace. Ariane subcontracts ROSCOSMOS to launch a Soyuz on their behalf. The Soyuz-2.1b rocket will use a Fregat upper stage. OneWeb is a planned satellite broadband constellation with the purpose of delivering global internet service. The OneWeb constellation, like SpaceX's Starlink, promises to bring semi-low-latency internet to areas where ground-based internet is unreliable or unavailable.

OneWeb intends to have 648 satellites in their constellation, which will provide them with the 600 satellites required for worldwide coverage as well as an additional 48 on-orbit spares in the event that a satellite fails. These satellites are in a 1,200 km low-Earth polar orbit, which is much lower than the current global internet services.

Courtesy of Arianespace
https://www.arianespace.com/missions/

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