OneWeb to launch satellites with SpaceX after suspending ties with Russian agency


FILE PHOTO A Soyuz-2.1b rocket booster with a Fregat upper stage and satellites of British firm OneWeb is removed from a launchpad after the launch was cancelled at the Baikonur Cosmodrome Kazakhstan March 4 2022. RoscosmosHandout via REUTERS

FILE PHOTO: A Soyuz-2.1b rocket booster with a Fregat upper stage and satellites of British firm OneWeb is removed from a launchpad after the launch was cancelled at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan March 4, 2022. Roscosmos/Handout via REUTERS

(Reuters) - OneWeb will resume satellite launches with Elon Musk's SpaceX, the British satellite communications company said on Monday after it suspended launches from Russia's Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

OneWeb did not disclose terms of the new launch agreement.

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