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OneWeb announced on 2022-03-03 that it would stop using Russia’s Soyuz rocket.
OneWeb is a global communications network powered by a constellation of 650 LEO satellites.
Preparations for OneWeb’s scheduled 2022-03-04 launch from Russia’s Baikonur Cosmodrome were suspended after Roscosmos Director General Dmitry Rogozin conditioned the launch on guarantees that OneWeb satellites would not be used for military purposes and after the British government divested its stake in OneWeb.
Prior to Russia’s 2022-02-24 invasion of Ukraine, OneWeb expected to deploy the remaining satellites in its planned constellation by the end of 2022-08-01.
OneWeb aimed to deploy the remaining satellites before the end of August to expand coverage into more parts of Europe, Africa, Asia, and other regions to provide global services.
Arianespace launched OneWeb’s last batch of satellites on 2022-02-10 from French Guiana.
Arianespace has performed 13 Soyuz missions for OneWeb across launch sites in Kazakhstan, Russia, and French Guiana.
Airbus and OneWeb have not disclosed how many satellites remain to be built to complete OneWeb’s constellation.
Arianespace has launched 428 of OneWeb’s planned 648-satellite constellation.
Airbus OneWeb Satellites has cooperated with Fakel on thrusters for OneWeb's constellation.
OneWeb planned a 2022-03-04 launch of 36 satellites on a Soyuz rocket.
Roscosmos required the British government to withdraw its stake in OneWeb as a condition for the 2022-03-05 launch.
Darren Jones, chair of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee, sent a 2022-03-01 letter questioning the appropriateness of the upcoming OneWeb mission from the Russian-owned Baikonur Cosmodrome.
Roscosmos Director General Dmitry Rogozin imposed conditions that the 2022-03-04 launch could proceed only if OneWeb guaranteed the satellites would not be used for military purposes and the U.K. government divested its stake in the company.
Airbus and OneWeb operate a production joint venture in Florida to build OneWeb satellites.
OneWeb ordered staff to leave Russia's Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on 2022-03-02.
Arianespace has a contract with OneWeb to launch its constellation and has deployed 428 of the planned 648 satellites on Soyuz rockets over 13 missions since February 2019.
It is unclear whether the OneWeb-derived satellite platforms Loft Orbital ordered from Airbus are designed to use Fakel thrusters.
The British government invested $500,000,000 in OneWeb in 2020 to help save the company from bankruptcy.
Chris McLaughlin, OneWeb’s head of government affairs, expected output could be transferred by 2024 or 2025.