OneWeb’s launch with Russia this week finds US, Russia, Europe, temporarily & uncomfortably, on the same page

by Peter B. de Selding

UPDATE March 3: this story was updated to include the Roscosmos March 2 declaration that the March 4/5 launch would be stopped unless Britain sold its OneWeb stake.

PARIS — The debate over a scheduled March 4/5 launch of 36 OneWeb satellites aboard a Russian rocket from the Russia-run Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan illustrates how complicated it can be to sort out whose national interest lies where.

A March 1 letter from the chair of a British Parliamentary committee is the . . .

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