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$KAZAKHSTAN MARCH 2, 2022: A Soyuz-2.1b rocket booster with a Fregat upper stage carrying British OneWeb satellites is being transported from an assembling facility to a launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. The launch is scheduled for 5 March 2022 at 01:41 Moscow time. Roscosmos Press Office/TASS THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. EDITORIAL USE ONLY (Photo by Roscosmos Press Office\TASS via Getty Images)$

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OneWeb 'surprised' by Russian demands over satellite launch

UK officials refused to sell shares in satellite firm OneWeb in response to demands by Russia, and the company says it is focusing on staff safety at the launchpad in Kazakhstan

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Soyuz rocket

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Russia and UK face a stand-off over OneWeb satellite rocket launch

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Let’s hear it for the space Cinderellas – Earth-observing satellites

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Anti-satellite weapons: Will further tests make space more dangerous?

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Anti-satellite weapons: Will further tests make space more dangerous?

Analysis

A satellite orbits the earth above India

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Humanitarian aid guided by satellite data may harm marginalised groups

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Satellite that can clean up space junk with a magnet about to launch

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China launched two satellites to find sources of gravitational waves

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China launched two satellites to find sources of gravitational waves

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Two old spacecraft just avoided catastrophically colliding in orbit

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Two old spacecraft just avoided catastrophically colliding in orbit

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Chameleon satellite

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US Air Force 'chameleon' satellites can be reconfigured in orbit

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SpaceX says tests show Starlink satellites deliver high-speed internet

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SpaceX says tests show Starlink satellites deliver high-speed internet

SpaceX is testing the use of space lasers to transfer data between its Starlink satellites, which the firm says can provide internet connections fast enough for HD streaming

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Life

Cold war spy satellite images reveal long-term decline in biodiversity

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Space junk: How to clean up the debris in orbit around Earth

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Technology

AI can search satellite data to find plastic floating in the sea

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Rockets armed with talcum powder could stop deadly space junk

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