Russia and UK face a stand-off over OneWeb satellite rocket launch

Rival OneWeb on Friday announced plans to launch 36 satellites through the Russian rocket Soyuz, which was shut down after Russia invaded Ukraine. SpaceX launched another Starlink Internet satellite into orbit on Thursday, while rival OneWeb, which uses Russian Soyuz rockets to fly in space, has announced it will suspend the launch of the campaign after Russia invades Ukraine. Roskosmos, Russia's space agency, has refused to launch the next set of OneWeb OneWeb Internet satellites as scheduled for Friday unless the company complies with government requirements. OneWeb, a UK-based satellite operator and UK government, has canceled the upcoming satellite launch using Russian rockets and Russian rockets and suspended all future Russian-based launches, which OneWeb announced Thursday after a public confrontation with Roscosmos, a Russian airliner. Office.

Russia made demands on OneWeb, a part-time satellite company sponsored by the British government before OneWeb launched a dozen spacecraft built near the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Roscosmos, Russia's space agency, has refused to proceed with the planned satellite launch unless the government sells its share to a British company backed by OneWeb taxpayers and receives guarantees that the equipment will not be used for military purposes. Dmitry Rogozin, head of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, in an interview with Rossiya 24 TV channel that if OneWeb does not confirm that its satellite will not be used for military purposes, its satellite launch, scheduled for March 4, will take place on March 4. Roscosmos wrote on Twitter that the launch would only take place if the British authorities gave their share to OneWeb.

Rogozin has threatened to cancel the launch, competing with OneWeb 14 on Soyuz unless the company guarantees that its system will not be used for military purposes again unless the British government sells its share of the project. Its OneWeb client plans to launch the first star of 648 satellites and is expected to launch more Soyuz rockets in 2022 to enrich the system. Contrary to this, rival OneWeb, the British government, plans to launch another online satellite network on Friday with the Russian Soyuz rocket at the Baikonur Cosmodrome of Kazakhstan earlier this week. The Russian space station Roskosmos was to launch the company's satellites with the Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

Arianespace sells rockets, including Soyuz, provided by Roskosmos to launch OneWeb. The British satellite company OneWeb is now planning to work with its French counterpart Arianespace, which plans to launch Soyuz worldwide for other rocket routes. OneWeb has fully paid for its launch in Russia with French rocket company Arianespace, and six other services are still under contract - the launch teams could cost hundreds of millions of dollars. The British government was separately pressured to cancel shipments due to the Ukrainian war, while Russia demanded that the British government secede from the British satellite company OneWeb, a decision soon overturned by Prime Minister Kvassey. boast.

Without them, Roscosmos head Dmitry Rogozin said Russia would cancel the address list without OneWeb compensation. Russia's invasion of Ukraine has raised doubts about its launch, with Rososcosmos chief executive Dmitry Rogozin saying today the launch will be canceled unless Russia receives assurances that the company's satellites will not be used for military purposes and the UK government - part of OneWeb - has withdrawn its stake. in the company. The Roscosmos deadline, which came three days before the planned launch, sparked urgent talks between British officials and OneWeb shareholders, who on Wednesday evening decided to suspend all future launches from Baikonur, Kazakhstan's Russian airport where Russia operates most of Russia. Present. In its latest response to international sanctions and growing political tensions, Russian space company Roscosmos is compiling a list of requests from its OneWeb client before agreeing to launch the company's next policy this week.

Roscosmos has delayed the launch of its broadband satellite scheduled for March 5 after OneWeb refused to meet its demands. The OneWeb's satellite was supposed to be launched with the Russian rocket Soyuz from Kazakhstan on March 5, but given the list of applications, the launch does not seem to be happening. In addition to the deadline, Russia has made another request for the launch of the OneWeb satellite. When and how the 36 currently Russian satellites on Friday's canceled trip crashed into Russian rockets, or where they would be stored as OneWeb looked at another start-up service provider, the official added, "It is unclear who the OneWeb operators are.

Speaking at Rossiya 24 on March 2, Rogozin also said the launch would not be possible unless it was provided by the British company OneWeb and the French company Arianespace, which has organized the launch of OneWeb and its satellites could not be used for military operations. If Russia's Soyuz rocket is not used to launch its client OneWeb satellite, it will be used for another aircraft, Roscosmos said. Dmitry Loskutov, chief executive of the open-air company Glavkosmos (part of Rososcosmos), told TASS that seven satellites would be launched at UK OneWeb in 2022.