SpaceX to launch OneWeb's internet satellites, replacing Russian Soyuz rockets

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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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Nimakstong.

Can you lend one to SkyNet please...!!!! I'm cancelled soyuz one week to launch, brave decision but not great for the company..!!!!

This is the funniest thing I've ever heard but you know what SpaceX is not one too be anticompetitive they simply just offer better Services/products it would be a monopoly if they didn't offer a cheap launch service for their satellite internet competitor.

captured at this angle it looks like an ICBM

The world doesn't need Russia. With focused effort, renewable energy can be accelerated, and we do not need their 1960s technology in space. Not so easy, of course... but doable. We must never allow again a dictator to take hostage the whole West!

Fantastic SpaceX !! We knew you would but it's still amazing!

If some countries, NASA and SpaceX agreed, they would even pimp up the current ISS so hard it would end looking like those Sci-Fi movies out there, I'm sure of it.

I would say this is going to knock the Russian Space Program roscosmos back into the 1960s but……..ItsStillThere

another heavy blow to the Russian space industry which was already in bad shape

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