MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 25th March, 2021) The Fregat upper stage with 36 UK OneWeb communications satellites separated from the third stage of the Soyuz-2 carrier rocket launched from Russia's Vostochny space center, according to a broadcast on Russian state space corporation Roscosmos' website.
The Soyuz-2 rocket with the UK satellites was launched from Vostochny earlier on Thursday.
This was the fifth Russian space launch in 2021 and this year's first one from Vostochny.
