OneWeb 'surprised' by Russian demands over satellite launch

Russia made demands on OneWeb, a British government-sponsored temporary satellite company before OneWeb launched a dozen spacecraft built near the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. 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. On Wednesday (March 2), Rososcosmos announced it would not start unless OneWeb confirmed that OneWeb's 36 online satellites would not be used for military purposes.

At the Soyuz rocket at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Russia's space agency must launch the OneWeb satellite. Thirty-six online OneWeb satellites are scheduled to launch a Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Friday (March 4), used jointly by the Russian Aerospace Forces and Roscosmos. OneWeb plans to launch five more satellites to the Soyuz rockets from Baikonur this year to meet their 648 spacecraft's orientation mission in orbit. With Roscosmos already helping OneWeb launch 428 satellites online, expectations are very high for the company.

According to PCMag, Roscosmos wants OneWeb to ensure that no satellites are used for military launch. Roscosmos has refused to launch the OneWeb Internet satellite on Friday, March 4, if the British internet business does not meet the needs of government officials. In a video message, Rososcosmos director Dmitry Rogozin asked the UK government to dispose of his property on OneWeb, otherwise, the launch would be canceled and satellite payments would be kept at Roscosmos permanently. OneWeb, a British and British government-owned satellite company, has canceled a satellite launch using a Russian rocket and a Russian rocket and suspended future Russian-based launches, OneWeb announced Thursday after a heated public debate with Roscosmos. . , Russia's space station.

With the new sanctions in place, Rososcosmos Chief Executive Officer Dmitry Rogozin has said he will withdraw all launches of the British space company OneWeb using Russian rockets unless British space company OneWeb confirms it is not using its network. Small satellites to communicate for military purposes. Now there are questions about whether the launch will take place as a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and Rososcosmos head Dmitry Rogozin said today the launch would be canceled, but there is no guarantee that the OneWeb satellite will not be used for military purposes. . . Why is the UK government, which owns part of OneWeb and part of OneWeb, withdrawing its share in the company for this reason? Roscosmos, Russia's space agency, has warned that it will not launch another OneWeb satellite without guarantees that it will not be used for military purposes, or that the UK will withdraw its share of the UK's OneWeb network.

Internal pressure on the company, requests from OneWeb and the UK government, came from Russia's Roscosmos facility before being unveiled at a Russian-owned airport. Following the launch, Russian Space Agency chief executive Dmitry Rogozin tweeted on Wednesday that the agency would not launch the satellite as planned unless the UK confirmed that the Russian car launched by Soyuz would not be used for war. The Russian space agency said that if the rocket were not used to shoot British satellites, it would be used for another aircraft.

In addition, Roscosmos head Dmitry Rogozin said the Soyuz-2 rocket, which was supposed to launch the OneWeb device, would now help the Russian company put the device into space. As Western companies cut ties with Russia's interests, some members of the UK parliament say it is unlikely that OneWeb will continue to shoot Russian arrows. In October last year, the OneWeb and India space program ISRO reached an agreement to use Indian rockets to launch satellites in the future.

Russian rocket company Roskosmos has announced that Roskosmos has retained a collection of OneWeb satellite operators. The British space company OneWeb immediately announced that it would suspend the launch of the Russian Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. On Thursday morning, OneWeb said it would suspend all launches. The British network OneWeb is currently threatened by the Russian invasion of Ukraine as Russia has already launched a few satellite OneWeb satellites.

The British network OneWeb is launching several rockets to complete its mission of building a 648 satellite network in space. OneWeb is a company that manufactures and launches satellites to connect to the internet from space in the same way as SpaceX's Starlink. Launch of the Soyuz 2.1brocket and the seventh set of OneWeb satellites from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia. In partnership with Arianespace, Starsem, and Roscosmos, the launch will add 36 spacecraft to the growing OneWeb satellite network.

Russia has taken a surprising step in making further demands on OneWeb and state assets before the launch of the satellite on Friday with the launch of Soyuz, the Soyuz launch vehicle. Asked about the situation on Wednesday, the UK government said it was "OK" to raise questions about "cooperation in space" with Russia and to "closely follow" the launch of OneWeb before it was suspended.