Months after OneWeb launched a batch of satellites with the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro), the UK-based company sent the second batch to India. The second batch of 36 satellites left the company’s UK facility on Wednesday on an Antonov aircraft.
The satellites are likely to be launched by ISRO on LVM-3 in March this year. Isro had redesignated the GSLV-MkIII launch vehicles as LVM-3 for the launch.Our satellites have now been loaded ahead of our upcoming launch with Isro. This is the final time we will load up an Antonov aircraft with our satellites for Gen1, demonstrating how close we are to truly global connectivity,” OneWeb said in a tweet as the aircraft took off.
