The press service of the state corporation “Roscosmos” confirmed that last week held talks in Moscow with representatives of oneweb, creating a global network of satellite communications
-. The negotiations were indeed, we are interested in cooperation with this the company, as well as increasing the share of Russian rocket technology to launch services market, – told “Izvestia”, the press service of the state corporation “Roscosmos»
Today, “Izvestia” newspaper reported that “Roskosmos” already. this year may receive largest-ever contract for launch services, which will employ up to 40 “Soyuz”. It became known last week during a visit to Moscow, the delegation of OneWeb, planning by 2020 to deploy a satellite constellation of 640 satellites in low orbit (1.2 kDa km from the Earth’s surface) to provide Internet access from anywhere in the world .
In the summer of last year OneWeb signed with “Roskosmos” contract to use 21 “Soyuz” rockets from 2017 to 2019. The contract amount was $ 1.2 billion in a short time the contract may be extended -. OneWeb will book another 40 “Unions” and “Roskosmos” will earn an additional $ 2.4 billion
The interest in additional “Union”. in OneWeb arose because there is no certainty that the company of Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic (one of OneWeb project shareholders, along with Hughes, Qualcomm, Airbus Defence and Space, Bharti Enterprises, The Coca-Cola company, Grupo Salinas and Intelsat) by 2018 was tested and put into production their LauncherOne system, specifically designed for the launch of small spacecraft.
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