Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continues to impact space.
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In its latest response to international sanctions and growing geopolitical tensions, Russia’s state space corporation, Roscosmos, is making a list of demands of its customer OneWeb before it agrees to launch the company’s upcoming mission this week. OneWeb’s satellites were scheduled to take off on top of a Russian Soyuz rocket on March 5th in Kazakhstan, but in light of these new demands, it seems likely that launch will not take place.
similar to SpaceX’s Starlink system. The company has been launching its satellites in batches of 34 and 36 at a time. This week’s launch was supposed to carry 36 new satellites to orbit to flesh out the constellation. OneWeb has yet to provide a response to the demands, and the company did not respond to a request for comment fromThe demand for the British government to divest seems impossible to adhere to, which pretty much guarantees the launch won’t take place. The British government became a major shareholder in OneWeb in 2020
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