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Vostotschny (dpa) - The European rocket operator Arianespace has sent further satellites into space for better Internet supply on earth.
On Friday evening (local time), a Russian Soyuz rocket took off from the Vostochny spaceport in the far east of the country, as the Russian space agency Roskosmos announced on Twitter.
On board were 36 satellites from the British communications company OneWeb.
It was not the first launch of this kind: A total of 672 satellites will be put into low-earth orbit - 110 of them are now above, Arianespace announced.
The satellites should enable a high-speed network for the Internet on earth - on water, on land and in the air.
Further launches are planned for this by the end of 2022.
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OneWeb plans to take up commercial services by the end of 2021. The competition is fierce: Billionaires like Tesla boss Elon Musk with his space company SpaceX also want to build satellite networks for Internet supply.
The Vostochny spaceport around 8,000 kilometers east of Moscow was only opened in 2016.
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