"TAKE OFF!", Announced on Twitter the Russian space agency Roscosmos after the launch of the rocket operated by the European Arianespace from the Russian cosmodrome of Baikonur, in Kazakhstan, at 13:10 GMT.
This is the eighth launch of OneWeb satellites this year.
A total of 394 satellites will now be in orbit for this constellation which will eventually have around 650.
Several projects with a view to setting up constellations providing space and a global internet are in progress.
The American billionaire Elon Musk, head of the space company SpaceX, has already put into orbit for this purpose more than 1,500 satellites to create the Starlink network.
Amazon founder American Jeff Bezos has a similar project called Kuiper.
Russia wants to stay in the space race and has multiplied ambitious projects ranging from space tourism to the construction of its own station in orbit to replace its aging segment on the ISS.
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