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Anonymous, which succeeds the Russian space agency Roscosmos

Did the hackers knock out the site of the Russian space agency Roscosmos? The position of the agency and the consequences for the British company OneWeb

Hacked the site of the Russian space agency Roscosmos?

The hacker group 'NB65', affiliated with Anonymous, hit the control center of the Russian space agency Roscosmos. Anonymous writes it from his Twitter profile. "Russia – it reads – no longer has control over its spy satellites", the NSA reports today.

But Roscosmos chief Dmitry Rogozin denied media reports that Russian satellite control centers had already been breached during Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.

Not only that, the number one of the Russian space agency has warned against any attempt to do so, reports the Interfax agency. Russia will treat any hacking of its satellites as a justification for war, the Roscosmos chief said in a news report, Reuters reports.

“Deactivating the satellites of any country is actually a casus belli, a cause of war,” says Interfax .

Meanwhile, the Russian space agency said today that it will not launch UK government-owned satellites without guarantees that they will not be used for military purposes.

In fact, the launch of 36 satellites of the British company OneWeb from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan is scheduled for next 4 March. Also today, the head of Roscosmos said that OneWeb had two days to provide "legally binding" guarantees.

WHAT WILL THE UK DO?

The BBC reports that the UK government, which has come under pressure to withdraw the launch due to the war in Ukraine, said it was continuing to discuss the situation with its partners on the OneWeb board. In fact, we recall that in July 2020 the Johnson government took over the OneWeb company , in consortium with the Indian group Bharti, for one billion pounds.

THE POSITION OF ROSCOSMOS

Meanwhile, in an interview with TV channel Russia 24, Rogozin said Roscomos contacted OneWeb and its partner Arianespace to ask for "full legally binding guarantees" that the satellites would not be used for military purposes.

"If we do not receive confirmation by 9:30 pm on March 4, the rocket will be removed from the launch pad and the satellites will be sent to the assembly and test building," he added.

And on Twitter the head of Roscsmos raises. In a tweet he asks "the UK government to withdraw its stake from the OneWeb company based in London".

This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/innovazione/anonymous-che-succede-allagenzia-spaziale-russa-roscosmos/ on Wed, 02 Mar 2022 16:24:21 +0000.