Russia’s Federal Security Service and its cash-strapped space agency Roscosmos are in conflict over a $1 billion contract to launch private satellites on behalf of a U.S. company.
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The FSB reportedly intervened to demand the cancellation of the contract between U.S. firm OneWeb and state corporation Roscosmos to launch a number of Internet connectivity satellites.
But the space agency’s chief executive, former deputy prime minister Dimitry Rogozin, has been bullish about the project, according to Russian news agency Interfax.