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An Indian GSLV Mark III rocket topped with 36 of OneWeb's net satellites rolls retired to the pad astatine e Satish Dhawan Space Centre connected Oct. 14, 2022 up of a planned Oct. 22 launch. (Image credit: ISRO via Twitter)

An Indian rocket volition motorboat 36 of OneWeb's net satellites to orbit connected Saturday (Oct. 22), and you tin ticker the enactment live.

A GSLV ("Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle") Mark III rocket is scheduled to motorboat the satellites Saturday astatine 2:37 p.m. EDT (1837 GMT; 12:07 a.m. India Standard Time connected Oct. 23) from Satish Dhawan Space Centre successful Sriharikota, a obstruction land conscionable disconnected India's southeastern coast.

Watch it unrecorded present astatine Space.com, courtesy of OneWeb, oregon directly via the company (opens successful caller tab). Coverage is expected to statesman 25 minutes earlier liftoff.

London-based OneWeb has launched 426 satellites to date, each of them aboard Russian-built Soyuz rockets operated by the French institution Arianespace. But that motorboat concern splintered pursuing Russia's penetration of Ukraine, which began successful precocious February of this year, starring OneWeb to question retired caller rides to orbit.

The institution soon recovered two. OneWeb announced successful March that it had signed a motorboat woody with SpaceX, past revealed a akin declaration with New Space India Limited (NSIL), the commercialized subdivision of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), a period later. The presumption of each woody were not disclosed.

Saturday's motorboat volition beryllium the archetypal nether the NSIL contract. (OneWeb has yet to alert with SpaceX, a rival successful the satellite-internet tract with its Starlink network.)

OneWeb is gathering retired an archetypal constellation of 648 satellites successful debased Earth orbit, which volition let the institution to supply net work to customers astir the globe.

OneWeb expects to deed that milestone sometime adjacent year. The institution already provides sum to customers who unrecorded supra 50 degrees northbound latitude.

The 143-foot-tall (43.5 meters) GSLV MkIII, besides known arsenic the LVM3, is India's astir almighty rocket. The three-stage launcher is susceptible of delivering 17,600 pounds (8,000 kilograms) of payload to debased Earth orbit, according to its ISRO specifications page. (opens successful caller tab)

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