Arianespace to launch 36 sats of OneWeb of Bharti-UK govt Dec 18 IANS
Chennai: Europe’s satellite launch company Arianespace will be launching 36 OneWeb constellation satellites December 18, using medium lift Russian rocket Soyuz out of Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia.
OneWeb, a low earth orbit (LEO) broadband satellite communications company, is a consortium between the UK government and Indian telecom group Bharti Global Ltd.
In November 2020 OneWeb announced that it has emerged from US Chapter 11 bankruptcy petition. A consortium of UK Government and Bharti Global, has invested $1bn of new equity to offer broadband connectivity services, via a constellation of 650 LEO satellites.
According to Arianespace, the 36 OneWeb satellites have been encapsulated in the payload fairing or heat shield of the rocket.
ISRO successfully launches its 42nd communication satellite aboard PSLV rocket
The CMS-01 satellite is replacing the ageing GSAT-12 satellite that was launched 15 July, 2011, with a mission life of seven years but ended up working for nine years
Dec 18, 2020 09:58:24 IST
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully launched its 42nd communication satellite CMS-01 on Thursday, at 3.41 pm IST. It lifted off into the cloudy skies from the Second Launch Pad (SLP) of Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota. Initially scheduled to launch on 8 December and again to 14 December, it was pushed back due to bad weather and the possibility of hurricanes. The CMS-01 satellite will be the first in a new series of communication satellites that India will be launching after the GSAT and INSAT series.
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PSLV-C50 rocket carrying communication satellite lifts off from Sriharikota
PSLV-C50 carrying communication satellite CMS-01 lifts off from the spaceport of Sriharikota
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The PSLV-C50 rocket carrying communication satellite CMS-01 lifts off from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota on Thursday. As the 25-hour countdown, which began on Wednesday at 2.41 hours, concluded, the launch vehicle PSLV-C50 on its 52nd mission blasted off at 3.41 pm from the second launch pad at the spaceport , ISRO said.
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India’s workhorse Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) in its 52nd flight will put in orbit the 42nd communications satellite that will provide coverage over the entire country for disaster management and satellite internet connection.
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