OneWeb Launches 34 Satellites From Kazakh Cosmodrome in Global Internet Push

A Soyuz rocket carrying a batch of 34 OneWeb satellites blasts off from a launchpad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, on Feb. 7, 2020. Russian State Space Corporation ROSCOSMOS/Handout via Reuters

The UK firm OneWeb launched 34 satellites from Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan early on Feb. 7 as part of its effort to provide global high-speed internet access using satellite communications by 2021.

The Russian Soyuz rocket left Baikonur at 0242 local time (2142 GMT Thursday), the second OneWeb launch out of 21 planned. OneWeb launched six satellites from the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, French Guiana, in February 2019.