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OneWeb: Satellites

Question for Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

UIN HL5301, tabled on 11 January 2022

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Callanan on 28 July 2021 (HL2253), whether OneWeb is still using the Soyuz launcher at Vostochny in Russia for heavy launches; and what plans they have, if any, to use other facilities instead of Russian ones.

Answered on

25 January 2022

OneWeb’s launches are currently contracted with Arianespace, a French-headquartered multinational company. Arianespace use Russian launch vehicles, launching from the Far-East in Russia and Kazakhstan.

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Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy