Nine of the planned for this year, 33 of space launches can be disrupted due to coronavirus and bankruptcy OneWeb, said the head of "Roskosmos" Dmitry Rogozin.
"In connection with the spread of coronavirus infection and the bankruptcy of the company OneWeb at risk, in our estimation, was at least nine launches, the launch ExoMars has already been transferred to 2022. This is a problem for us because the machines we should withdraw from our space, they just don’t physically reside on the territory of Russia," he said during the meeting on outer space under the chairmanship of the President.
All, according to him, in 2020 the planned 33 start-up, of which 12 satellites under the Federal space program, nine commercial, three launches from the Guiana space center (Kourou spaceport). Five launches have already taken place.
In this case, said Rogozin, only "Roskosmos" among all the space agencies of the world continues – "everyone else stopped".
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