A Soyuz ST-B/Fregat-M launched from Kourou carried the first six OneWeb broadband satellites, built by Airbus-OneWeb Satellites, into a near-polar orbit around 1,000 km altitude inclined 87.77 degrees, kicking off OneWeb's global internet mega-constellation deployment campaign.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- PO
- Polar orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.5 T
- Flight
- 10th
- of 13 Soyuz STB Fregat flights
- Date and time
- 27 February 2019, 21:37 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz STB Fregat
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- Soyuz Launch Complex, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2019-010
- Launches in 2019
- 12th of 102
See it in orbit
Space Atlas shows the satellites and rocket stages from this launch in 3D.
Object pages on Space Atlas: OneWeb-0012
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