OneWeb turned to a competitor in the satellite internet business.
The Russian space agency Roscosmos takes a Soyuz rocket topped with 36 OneWeb internet satellites down from its launch pad at Baikonur Cosmodrome on March 4, 2022. OneWeb announced on March 21 that it has signed a launch deal with SpaceX.OneWeb has launched 428 broadband spacecraft to date, all of them using Russian-built Soyuz rockets operated by the French company Arianespace.
ButBefore allowing a Soyuz topped with 36 OneWeb satellites to launch from the Russia-run Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan earlier this month, for example, Russia's federal space agencythat OneWeb guarantee the spacecraft wouldn't be used for military purposes and that the United Kingdom divest itself from the London-based company. Those demands were not met, and the satellite-laden
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