Rogozin: OneWeb to go bankrupt after Roscosmos gives no rockets

SAMARA, Mar 21 (PRIME) -- OneWeb, a U.K.-based communications company that aims to build broadband satellite Internet services, will go bankrupt after a refusal of state corporation Roscosmos to give them rockets, the corporation’s General Director Dmitry Rogozin said on March 19.

“They will make no launches of OneWeb either from Baikonur or Kourou. This is the loss inflicted directly on company OneWeb, which will now become bankrupt,” Rogozin said.

“The specialists know that OneWeb is gone, there is no more OneWeb.”

Rogozin also said that there will be no more commercial customers, because Roscosmos has enough work in the interests of Russia.

The rockets built for OneWeb will be exploited for the satellites of private Russian  companies almost for free, because the apparatuses are already paid for by the foreign company and Roscosmos will not hand them over to it, he said.

Russia refused to launch OneWeb satellites after the U.K. government said it would not leave the board of directors and the company did not guarantee that the satellites would not be used in military purposes.

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