Russian rocket launches UK telecom satellites

Moscow: A Russian Soyuz rocket carrying 36 UK telecommunication and internet satellites blasted off from the Vostochny cosmodrome in Russia’s Far East on Thursday, the Roscosmos space agency said.

Images released by Roscosmos showed the Soyuz rocket, launched by Europe’s Arianespace, taking off against dark skies at 1248 GMT.

“We have lift-off,” OneWeb, a London-headquartered company, said on Twitter.