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A new batch of satellites brings widespread Arctic broadband closer to reality

It's the third of five launches aimed at providing service north of the 50th parallel.

By Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer April 26, 2021
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British communication company OneWeb launched 36 more communications satellites into orbit late Sunday evening by a Soyuz rocket from Russia’s Vostochny cosmodrome.

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