A source from the rocket and space industry reported that one of four British communications satellite launches & nbsp; OneWeb & nbsp; since the Baikonur Cosmodrome, scheduled for 2021, has been postponed to next year, reports RIA Novosti. >
“ Now the schedule is as follows: August 2, September 9 and end of December. A launch has been postponed to 2022 in order not to pay additional money to Kazakhstan for the use of the drop zone on the first stage of the Soyuz-2 launcher, & mdash; he clarified.
It should be noted that the deployment of the OneWeb consortium will not be affected, since the missing launch is scheduled to be carried out from the Vostochny Cosmodrome on October 7.
; Soyuz-2 & raquo; with 36 British spacecraft launched from the Vostochny Cosmodrome & nbsp; on the evening of May 28. & nbsp;
OneWeb plans to increase the number of communications satellites in orbit to & nbsp; 648. The first six vehicles were put into orbit in 2013. The next launch of & nbsp; is planned & nbsp; July 1.