Britain is internationally recognized "churning stick", from the European region began to flourish and develop, the United Kingdom is worried that there will be a powerful country that endangers its status, so it has sent troops to attack neighboring countries many times, such as France, Germany has suffered from the "harassment" of the United Kingdom, and now the United States is powerful, and has repeatedly attached itself to the United States in international affairs, and has previously followed the United States to sanction Russia, and finally repaired by Russia, when cornered, it turned to find the "good big brother" Of course, the United States was wronged, but the result was that it was closed door, musk also ignored it, He said that he couldn't do anything, and his backyard was still burning.
I believe that this situation britain did not expect, before following the United States to Russia in all directions of blockade sanctions, in the rocket launch plan, originally thought that without Russia, the United States SpaceX can help them, and now the result has caused the United Kingdom headache. On March 2, 2022, the Russian Federal Space Agency issued a document announcing that any OneWeb satellite with a British government background must state that it has no military use, otherwise it will refuse to launch, you know, the Current OneWeb satellite has been carried on the Soyuz rocket at the Baikonur Space Launch Site, which was originally scheduled to be launched on March 5, but now it has been hit back by a Russian stick.
In the face of Russia's "attack", the United Kingdom and OneWeb were angry and tough, first of all, the British government said that it would not sell its shares in OneWeb, and after a board vote, it suspended the launch of any rockets from russia's Baikonur Space Base. In the eyes of the United Kingdom, the space technology of EU countries is no less than that of Russia, in addition to the Baikonur Space Base, as well as NASA, SpaceX and even the Chinese Space Agency, can be considered, why is it so suppressed by Russia.
In recent years, although the Development of the British military industry, science and technology, economy and other fields is very strong, but for the aviation industry, the United Kingdom has no way to do anything. It is understood that as early as 1970, Britain announced that it would completely abandon its launch vehicle business, and as soon as the news came out, the outside world began to doubt whether Britain had eaten the "big cake" drawn by the United States, and finally cut off its arm to obey the Orders of the United States.
But Russia has always been unable to deal with the relationship with the United States, so why would Britain, as a loyal "little brother" of the United States, find Russia to cooperate? In fact, the choice of Russian launch is the optimal solution, the orbit of oneWeb satellite, Russia launch is the cheapest, in the definition of commercial launch cooperation, as long as the bid is cheap, the United Kingdom will inevitably choose Russia. But now that Russia has countered, the Uk has thought of finding a "good big brother" to help and let SpaceX be a "receiver".
However, the Upcoming OneWeb satellite launched by the United Kingdom and SpaceX's StarLink are in a state of competition, if SpaceX "bridges" for the British OneWeb, then the United States will not find itself unhappy. Therefore, Britain could not have imagined that following the US sanctions would eventually harm itself.