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Roscosmos demands UK government’s exit from OneWeb shareholders for satellite launch

"The satellites located at the Baikonur spaceport will remain there until the situation is resolved," the Russian space agency said
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MOSCOW, March 2. /TASS/. The British government must quit shareholders of the UK-based company OneWeb for the launch of the company’s communications satellites atop a Russian Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket on March 5, Russia’s State Space Corporation Roscosmos said in a statement on Wednesday.

"Owing to Great Britain’s hostile attitude towards Russia, the British government’s withdrawal from OneWeb’s shareholders is yet another condition for the launch of satellites on March 5," the statement reads.

The refusal to launch the satellites will cause no economic damage because the work on creating rockets and boosters has already been paid for, Roscosmos emphasized.

"The satellites located at the Baikonur spaceport will remain there until the situation is resolved," the Russian space agency said.


No other vehicles for orbiting satellites of the OneWeb orbital cluster are envisaged in the near term. The Russian side is ready to fulfil its commitments given that the foreign customer provides legal guarantees, the statement says.

If necessary, the Soyuz rocket can be used for another launch. If it is removed from the launch pad, this will entail no consequences, Roscosmos said.

"The chemical current sources of the Fregat booster are charged until the end of April 2022 and the calibration of the control system allows using it until May. The Fregat thruster is filled with propellant components and can be used until August 10 this year," the space agency added.

Legal guarantees​

Roscosmos Chief Dmitry Rogozin said earlier on Wednesday that the Russian space agency would not launch the Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket with British OneWeb satellites, if it received no guarantees before the evening of March 4 that they would be used only for civilian purposes.

The launch of the Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket with OneWeb satellites is scheduled for 01:41 Moscow time on March 5.

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.
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Russia wants launch guarantees from Europe's Arianespace

Moscow (AFP) March 2, 2022 - Russia's space agency on Wednesday demanded legal guarantees from Europe's Arianespace and OneWeb that satellites Moscow is set to launch this year will not be used for military purposes.
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Russian move to hold up OneWeb launch may affect entire space industry

Orlando FL (UPI) Mar 03, 2022 - Russia's invasion of Ukraine hit the space industry harder Wednesday after Russian space agency Roscosmos said it would hold up a satellite launch for a British company - which experts say may compl
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aonestudio said:
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OneWeb agrees satellite programme with SpaceX

OneWeb announced today an agreement with SpaceX that will enable the continuation of its launch programme to grow its fleet of satellites in low Earth orbit. The first launch with SpaceX is anticipated in 2022.
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Interesting. It was generally speculated that SpaceX would not provide launch services to a potential Starlink compatitor like OneWeb.

Just confidence that OneWeb isn't a serious market competitor or concern about being accused of using their dominant position in low-cost space launch as an anticompetitive practice?
 
TomS said:
aonestudio said:
oneweb.net

OneWeb agrees satellite programme with SpaceX

OneWeb announced today an agreement with SpaceX that will enable the continuation of its launch programme to grow its fleet of satellites in low Earth orbit. The first launch with SpaceX is anticipated in 2022.
oneweb.net oneweb.net
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Interesting. It was generally speculated that SpaceX would not provide launch services to a potential Starlink compatitor like OneWeb.

Just confidence that OneWeb isn't a serious market competitor or concern about being accused of using their dominant position in low-cost space launch as an anticompetitive practice?
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Good to see that SpaceX have agreed to launch OneWeb's satellites, I wonder how much money was agreed to allow OneWeb to use SpaceX's Falcon rockets? There was no word in the article on OneWeb's site.
 
We are excited to share that we have signed a distribution partnership agreement with @Eutelsat Communications. The agreement paves the way for Eutelsat to provide OneWeb services across key sectors.
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https://twitter.com/x/status/1506255741182693377
View: https://twitter.com/OneWeb/status/1506255741182693377

#PressRelease: Hughes Debuts Multi-Transport Satellite-LTE Capability, Unveils Groundbreaking New Flat Panel Antenna Technology for
@OneWeb Service.
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https://twitter.com/x/status/1506250363011223566
View: https://twitter.com/HughesConnects/status/1506250363011223566

We are delighted to announce that we have signed a distribution partner agreement with @Kymeta, a world leading company for flat panel antennas making mobile global.
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https://twitter.com/x/status/1506293822355091460
View: https://twitter.com/OneWeb/status/1506293822355091460

We are pleased to confirm that @Telstra will be building and managing three new dedicated teleports across Australia to provide satellite gateway services for OneWeb in the Southern Hemisphere.
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https://twitter.com/x/status/1506309452974239744
View: https://twitter.com/OneWeb/status/1506309452974239744
 
TomS said:
aonestudio said:
oneweb.net

OneWeb agrees satellite programme with SpaceX

OneWeb announced today an agreement with SpaceX that will enable the continuation of its launch programme to grow its fleet of satellites in low Earth orbit. The first launch with SpaceX is anticipated in 2022.
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Interesting. It was generally speculated that SpaceX would not provide launch services to a potential Starlink compatitor like OneWeb.
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Shrug. The question for SpaceX was simple: "Do we accept a sizable payday to launch these payloads, or do we let someone else get paid to do it?" Since the satellites were goign to be launched by *somebody* anyway, might as well be SpaceX.
 
OneWeb, the broadband megaconstellation company whose launch plans were disrupted by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, expects to resume launches late this year, an executive said June 23.

Speaking at the Fourth Summit for Space Sustainability by the Secure World Foundation and the U.K. Space Agency, Maurizio Vanotti, vice president of space infrastructure development and partnerships at OneWeb, said new launch agreements with SpaceX and NewSpace India Ltd. (NSIL) would allow the company to launch the remaining satellites of its first-generation system by the second quarter of 2023.

“Our plan is to be back on the launch pad in quarter four, after the summer, and to complete deployment of the constellation by quarter two next year,” he said. It will take several months after that final launch for the satellites to move to their operational orbits, he added.
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OneWeb to resume launches in fourth quarter - SpaceNews

OneWeb expects to resume launches late this year with SpaceX and India's space agency, an executive said June 23.
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Flyaway said:
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India's GSLV Mk3 rocket to launch Oneweb satellites in Oct'22 and Jan'23: ISRO Chairman

India's heaviest rocket, the GSLV Mk3, will henceforth be used to perform commercial launches, with two such launches being planned in October this year and January next year, ISRO Chairman, Dr S Somanath said. He mentioned that UK-based OneWeb had signed up as a customer for both these...
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That is good news about OneWeb and the Indian GSLV rocket launching the satellites into space in October and next January, I am relieved about that because I was very worried for the future of OneWeb at one point.
 
www.gov.uk

Beam-hopping OneWeb satellite soars into space

A new satellite that uses advanced UK technology to switch coverage between different places on Earth up to 1,000 times per second has launched into space.
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www.esa.int

Beam-hopping JoeySat launched

An advanced broadband satellite that will demonstrate next-generation 5G connectivity by providing high-speed internet services has launched into space.
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Grey Havoc said:
Via Slashdot:
(The Independent, via Yahoo)
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Elon Musk now controls two thirds of all active satellites

SpaceX’s Starlink network is growing by an average of three satellites per day
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The latest data from non-profit satellite tracker CelesTrak shows that SpaceX has 6,370 active Starlink satellites in low-Earth orbit, with several hundred more inactive or deorbited.

The figure, which has risen more than six-fold in just three years, represents just over 62 per cent of all operational satellites, and is roughly 10-times the number of Starlink’s closest rival, UK-based startup OneWeb.

The firm, which is a subsidiary of French satellite giant Eutelsat, was forced to rely on SpaceX rockets to deliver its equipment into space after launches with Russia’s Soyuz were cancelled in 2022 due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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