India Launches 36 OneWeb Satellites Into Orbit - ISRO

© AP PhotoThis handout photo provided by the Indian Space Research Organization shows PSLV-C48 lifting off at the Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota, India, Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2019. India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle successfully launched RISAT-2BR1 along with nine commercial satellites, according to a press release. RISAT-2BR1 is a radar imaging earth observation satellite weighing about 628 kg, it said
This handout photo provided by the Indian Space Research Organization shows PSLV-C48 lifting off at the Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota, India, Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2019.
India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle successfully launched RISAT-2BR1 along with nine commercial satellites, according to a press release. RISAT-2BR1 is a radar imaging earth observation satellite weighing about 628 kg, it said - Sputnik International, 1920, 23.10.2022
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NEW DELHI (Sputnik) - The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) says it has successfully launched 36 OneWeb satellites into orbit using the LVM3 carrier rocket.
The launch was carried out at 00:07 local time on Sunday (19:07 GMT on Saturday, October 22), from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota.
"LVM3 M2/OneWeb India-1 mission is completed successfully. All the 36 satellites have been placed into intended orbits," ISRO said in a statement on social media after the launch.
According to OneWeb, with this latest launch, the company has more than 70% of its planned Gen 1 low Earth orbit (LEO) constellation in orbit.
In March, OneWeb suspended all future launches from the Russian-leased cosmodrome in Kazakhstan after Moscow demanded that the company provide guarantees for non-military use of the satellites and asked that the UK government sell its stake in the enterprise.
The OneWeb satellites are designed to build a space-based communications system providing broadband Internet access to any location across the globe.
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