Sign Up The British government, which holds a stake in OneWeb, also said it was reviewing its participation in further projects with Russia in light of the Ukraine crisis. The British satellite firm expects its first launch with SpaceX later this year to add to its constellation of 428 satellites already in low-Earth orbit. “With these launch plans in place, we’re on track to finish building out our full fleet of satellites,” OneWeb Chief Executive Officer Neil Masterson said. OneWeb, which plans to offer universal broadband through a network that will ultimately consist of 650 satellites, was rescued from bankruptcy by the British government and Indian telecoms giant Bharti Global in 2020. Eutelsat Communications and SoftBank Group Corp are among other investors in the firm. SpaceX’s Starlink, one of several ventures in the fast-growing satellite broadband business, including Amazon.com Inc subsidiary Project Kuiper, has put some 1,500 satellites in operation, providing internet access to regions underserved or hard to reach for other services. (Reporting by Akash Sriram in Bengaluru; Additional reporting by Steve Gorman in Los Angeles; Editing by Maju Samuel and Jonathan Oatis) A Soyuz rocket with satellites of British firm OneWeb is removed from a launchpad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome About the Author