“In the preparation for the launch, we exercise the highest degree of caution, and for this reason we are going to conduct several additional satellite tests over the next few weeks in order to send them to Baikonur in December. We plan to carry out the next launch in mid-late January, ”the representative of the TASS organization quotes.
He also said that in the future it is planned to launch more than 30 satellites from Baikonur every month, which, according to the company’s calculations, will allow the Arctic to be covered by the end of 2020 and full round-the-clock coverage by 2021.
At the same time, Glavkosmos said that they have not yet received official notification from European partners about the postponement of the launch of OneWeb from the end of 2019 to 2020.
In late May, it was reported that the first launches of OneWeb satellites from Baikonur could take place on November 20 and December 5.