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Soyuz Flight ST31 orbited 36 new OneWeb satellites on Monday, 2021-04-26 at 07:14 a.m. local time at Russia’s Vostochny Cosmodrome (22:14 UTC on 2021-04-25).
OneWeb Satellites produced the Flight ST31 satellites in Florida, USA, in manufacturing facilities that can build up to two satellites per day on a series production line dedicated to spacecraft assembly, integration, and testing.
One of the satellites from OneWeb’s previous batch of 36 launched 2021-03-25 could have come too close to SpaceX’s Starlink-1546 satellite.
OneWeb-0178’s course was adjusted after it was projected to come close to the Starlink-1546 satellite that launched in September 2020.
Arianespace’s 2021-04-25 launch for OneWeb advances OneWeb toward an interim goal to expand coverage north of 50 degrees latitude by June.
Arianespace can deploy the OneWeb constellation using Soyuz launch sites in French Guiana, Kazakhstan, and Russia.
The 36 OneWeb satellites will raise themselves to an operational orbit at an altitude of 1,200 km.
OneWeb launched an innovation challenge on 2021-04-23 that is open to businesses, academic, and research-based entities to find technologies that advance space-based connectivity.
OneWeb’s low Earth orbit broadband constellation reached 182 satellites after Arianespace launched 36 spacecraft on 2021-04-25.
OneWeb-0178 was one of 36 satellites launched on 2021-03-25 on a Soyuz rocket from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia.
The U.S. Space Force’s 18th Space Control Squadron projected on 2021-03-30 that OneWeb-0178 and Starlink-1546 would come within about 60 m of each other with a 1.3% chance of collision on 2021-04-03 based on initial estimates.
OneWeb maneuvered satellite OneWeb-0178 on 2021-04-03 to avoid a close approach with SpaceX Starlink-1546.
By the time OneWeb executed its 2021-04-03 maneuver, refined orbital data indicated the probability of collision had dropped below any threshold that required a maneuver.
LeoLabs estimated the actual close approach distance between OneWeb-0178 and Starlink-1546 to be 1,72 m using its own data.
Once deployed, the OneWeb constellation will enable user terminals capable of offering 0.003 kg, LTE, 0.005 kg, and Wi-Fi coverage to provide high-speed access globally by air, sea, and land.
This sixth launch benefiting OneWeb will increase the number of satellites deployed for OneWeb from 146 to 182.
OneWeb launched a batch of 36 satellites on a Soyuz-2.1b on 2021-03-25 to bring its total to 146 satellites.
OneWeb is planning three more launches by June to cover north of 50 degrees latitude and expand coverage across the U.K., Alaska, Northern Europe, Greenland, Iceland, the Arctic Seas, and Canada.
OneWeb and Telesat have launched LEO satellites providing connectivity to the business segment.
Private investors deployed $1,900,000,000 in SpaceX, OneWeb, and other space infrastructure companies in the first three months of 2021.