The rocket took off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 1807 GMT on Tuesday.
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A Russian Soyuz rocket has blasted into space carrying 34 new satellites from British operator OneWeb, which aims to provide broadband internet everywhere in the world.
A rocket powered by Europe’s Arianespace took off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 1807 GMT on Tuesday, broadcast live by the Russian Roscosmos space agency.
“The launch was planned,” Roscosmos chief Dmitry Rogozin said on Telegram.
This was the sixth launch of OneWeb satellites this year, the last on 22 August.
OneWeb is working to complete the construction of a group of low-Earth orbit satellites that will provide advanced broadband and other services to countries around the world.
The company is competing with billionaires Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos in a race to provide faster internet access to remote areas of the world via satellite.
The UK company plans to roll out its global commercial Internet service by next year, supported by some 650 satellites.
Arianespace, which has worked with Russia for nearly two decades, is under contract to conduct 16 Soyuz launches between December 2020 and the end of 2022.
With this latest mission, a total of 288 satellites are now in orbit of the constellation.
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