Launches will be carried out by SpaceX.
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The British satellite company OneWeb has refused to use Russian Soyuz launch vehicles for its launches after Russia found a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Instead, Ilona Mask's company SpaceX will launch, according to The Independent.
According to the publication, the OneWeb step was a demonstration of how sanctions imposed on Russia will affect its activities in space. The Soyuz launch was scheduled to take place shortly after the attack, but the company decided to cancel it.
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Since then, the fate of the satellites that are still at the Russian spaceport, as well as future launches, has been unknown. OneWeb later said that SpaceX would launch satellites. The first launches will take place this year, the company notes that there will be several.
It will be recalled that in 2021, countries that supported anti-Russian sanctions accounted for more than 54% of Russia's trade turnover. Russia's main trading partner in recent years has been the European Union: in 2021, it accounted for 35.9% of Russia's trade turnover ($ 282 billion).
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