Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat launched OneWeb's eighth batch of 36 broadband satellites from Vostochny into polar orbit, pushing the constellation past 248 operational spacecraft and completing OneWeb's 'Five to 50' initiative for Arctic connectivity.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- PO
- Polar orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 5.3 T
- Flight
- 17th
- of 36 Soyuz 2.1b Fregat-M flights
- Date and time
- 1 July 2021, 12:48 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz 2.1b Fregat-M
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- Cosmodrome Site 1S, Vostochny Cosmodrome, Siberia, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2021-060
- Launches in 2021
- 63rd of 146
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