This weekend 34 satellites of the British operator OneWeb were launched by the Russian Soyuz rocket, to expand a constellation that will provide very high-speed Internet to the entire world.

According to the information provided by the Russian Space Agency (Roscosmos), the rocket, operated by the first commercial space transport company Arianespace, it successfully took off at 2213 GMT on Saturday from the Russian Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

This launch is the fifth carried out by OneWeb in the eight months of 2021, to have an availability of 288 satellites in orbit.

The global communications company, OneWeb, plans to put into operation, by the end of 2022, a global Internet with a network of 650 satellites.

One¬Web and Arianespace for the end of last year, signed an agreement with which the European group undertakes to launch the rest of the satellites until completing the constellation they want for the project to enter into execution.

There are several projects that aim to offer the Internet worldwide, among which the billionaire Elon Musk stands out, who has his own space company Space X, which has put into orbit more than 1,500 satellites from his Starlink network.

Another similar project is being developed by the American Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, who is executing his project called Kuiper.

M. Rodríguez

Source: noticiasncc

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