“By the end of this year, dozens of Russian-made private spacecraft for communication, meteorological observation and remote sensing of the Earth will be sent to target orbits.
For this, the Soyuz-2 launch vehicles, which we derived from the OneWeb British satellite system launch project, will be used, ”he wrote in his Telegram channel.
On March 2, Rogozin said that OneWeb had been warned that if it did not provide a guarantee that its satellites would not be used for military purposes by 21:30 March 4, then the Soyuz-2.1b rocket would be removed from the launch and the satellites would be dismantled.
British Minister for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Kwazi Kwarteng said the British government would not sell its stake in OneWeb.