UK Government-Backed OneWeb Suspends Satellite Launch at Russian-Run Spaceport

UK Government-Backed OneWeb Suspends Satellite Launch at Russian-Run Spaceport
The OneWeb launch was due to use Russian Soyuz rockets at Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan Gareth Fuller/PA
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A satellite launch by a communications firm with UK government backing will not go ahead after the company’s board suspended use of a Russian-operated spaceport.

OneWeb was due on Friday to launch 36 broadband satellites in Kazakhstan, in an operation that would have used Russian Soyuz rockets and have been overseen by the Russian space agency.