{"id":19850,"date":"2022-03-03T10:52:53","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T15:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=19850"},"modified":"2022-03-07T14:17:35","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T19:17:35","slug":"russia-threatens-to-halt-the-launch-of-oneweb-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/russia-threatens-to-halt-the-launch-of-oneweb-satellites\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Threatens To Halt The Launch Of OneWeb Satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-ar-index=\"0\">The Russian space agency, Roscosmos has threatened to halt the launch of satellites belonging to UK-based satellite company OneWeb unless certain demands are met.<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"1\">The demands include the sale of the UK government&#8217;s share of OneWeb and also, the guarantee that the satellites will not be used for military purposes.<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"2\">According to Roscosmos, the recent action from Russia is triggered by &#8220;Britain&#8217;s hostile stance against Russia.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"3\">Responding to the demand from Russia, UK Business and Energy Secretary Kwasi Kwarten rejected the demands.<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"4\">&#8220;There&#8217;s no negotiation on OneWeb: The UK government is not selling its share,&#8221; Kwarten tweeted.<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"5\">In 2020, the UK government purchased OneWeb as part of a $500 million bailout deal.<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"6\">One-web planned to launch three dozens of internet satellites on March 5. The satellites are being carried in a Soyuz rocket, which has been rolled out to the Russia-operated Baikonur Cosmodrome launch pad.<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"7\">For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/russia-states-demands-to-launch-oneweb-satellites-as-telstra-signs-memo-with-oneweb\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in ZDNet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian space agency, Roscosmos has threatened to halt the launch of satellites belonging to UK-based satellite company OneWeb unless certain demands are met. The demands include the sale of the UK government&#8217;s share of OneWeb and also, the guarantee that the satellites will not be used for military purposes. According to Roscosmos, the recent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-todays-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19851,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19850\/revisions\/19851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}