OneWeb turned to a competitor in the satellite internet business. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The Russian space agency Roscosmos takes a Soyuz rocket topped with 36 OneWeb internet satellites down from its launch pad at Baikonur Cosmodrome on March 4, 2022. OneWeb announced on March 21 that it has signed a launch deal with SpaceX. (Image credit: Roscosmos via Twitter) OneWeb has found a new ride for its internet satellites. OneWeb has launched 428 broadband spacecraft to date, all of them using Russian-built Soyuz rockets operated by the French company Arianespace. But Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine made that situation untenable. Before allowing a Soyuz topped with 36 OneWeb satellites to launch from the Russia-run Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan earlier this month, for example, Russia's federal space agency Roscosmos demanded that OneWeb guarantee the spacecraft wouldn't be used for military purposes and that the United Kingdom divest itself from the London-based company. (The U.K government helped buy OneWeb out of bankruptcy in late 2020.) Those demands were not met, and the satellite-laden Soyuz was rolled off the launch pad at Baikonur shortly before its planned liftoff. You may like