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OneWeb: Satellites

Question for Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

UIN 133171, tabled on 2 March 2022

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much funding (a) Russian- or (b) Belarussian-owned entities received in connection with the OneWeb satellite launch; and what proportion of that sum came from public funding used to purchase OneWeb out of bankruptcy in 2020.

Answered on

7 March 2022

OneWeb’s launch contract is with Arianespace, a French company. As a non-majority shareholder in OneWeb (17.6%), we cannot comment on arrangements between Arianespace and its suppliers.

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Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
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