Moscow. May 27. INTERFAX.RU -The transfer of the launch of the Soyuz rocket with OneWeb satellites from the Vostochny cosmodrome is caused by problems with electrical equipment, ArianSpace reported.
The company’s message explains that the launch was postponed for a day due to the replacement of one element of electrical equipment on the Soyuz launch vehicle.
Earlier, Roskosmos announced the postponement of the launch by a day due to technical problems.
The Soyuz-2.1b rocket on the evening of May 27 was supposed to launch 36 communication satellites of the British company OneWeb into orbit from the Vostochny cosmodrome.
LEO OneWeb spacecraft are designed to provide terrestrial consumers with high-speed Internet directly via satellite communications. Roskosmos plans to carry out ten launches with such spacecraft in 2021.
There are already more than a hundred such satellites in orbit, the first were launched into orbit in February 2019 from the Guiana Space Center (French Guiana).
