MOSCOW, March 4. /TASS/. A Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket intended for orbiting British OneWeb communications satellites on March 5 will be disassembled into integral parts in the coming days, the Russian space agency Roscosmos said in a statement on Friday.

"The Soyuz-2.1b rocket with the Fregat booster and OneWeb satellites has been taken to the assembly and testing facility. Roscosmos specialists will disassemble it into integral parts in the coming days," Roscosmos said on its Telegram channel.

Later, the rocket can be assembled again and launched into outer space, it said.

The launch of the Russian Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket with OneWeb satellites was scheduled for 01:41 Moscow time on March 5 from the Baikonur cosmodrome. British OneWeb low-orbit satellites are designed to create a space-based communications system to provide high-speed Internet access in any locality worldwide. All of OneWeb satellites were orbited by Russian Soyuz carrier rockets.

Roscosmos Chief Dmitry Rogozin earlier gave instructions to cancel the preparations for the launch of OneWeb satellites from the Baikonur spaceport as the partners refused to provide legal guarantees of using the space vehicles for civilian purposes only and to withdraw the British government from shareholders of the UK-based company OneWeb. Owing to this reason, the Roscosmos head issued instructions to halt the preparations for the launch of these satellites from the Baikonur, Vostochny and Kourou spaceports.

CEO of Glavkosmos commercial launch operator (a Roscosmos subsidiary) Dmitry Loskutov earlier told TASS that seven launches of British OneWeb communications satellites were scheduled for 2022. As of March 4, one launch was conducted from the Guiana space center (the Kourou cosmodrome) on February 10, in which 34 OneWeb satellites were orbited.