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SpaceX launched 40 One Web high speed internet satellites into orbit SpaceX launched 40 One Web high speed internet satellites into orbit 00:19 SpaceX launched a second batch of OneWeb internet satellites late Monday, helping the London-based company fill out its orbital constellation after Russia blocked planned Soyuz launches last year in the wake of western sanctions. Liftoff from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station came on time at 11:50 p.m. EST, lighting up the overnight sky with a brilliant torrent of fiery exhaust. Eight minutes later, twin sonic booms rattled windows across Florida's Space Coast as the reusable first stage descended to touchdown on a nearby landing pad. SpaceX had planned to launch another Falcon 9 rocket overnight, this one from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, to put 51 more Starlink internet relay stations into orbit, but bad weather forced a 24-hour delay. A time exposure captures the exhaust plume of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket as it streaked toward space Monday night, passing above the moon as viewed from nearby Merritt Island, Florida. The rocket's first stage carried out two engine firings as it executed a successful return-to-launch-site landing. William Harwood/CBS News But it was clear sailing in Florida, and the Falcon 9's second stage, carrying 40 OneWeb satellites, executed two engine firings to reach an initial 370-mile-high orbit tilted 87 degrees to the equator. All Operating in multiple orbital planes, OneWeb 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. "We thank SpaceX for their support, which reflects our shared vision for the boundless potential of space," OneWeb CEO Neil Masterson said in a statement today. "With these launch plans in place, we're on track to finish building out our full fleet of satellites and deliver robust, fast, secure connectivity around the globe." — — — Falcon 9 rocket. In today's statement, OneWeb representatives said the first launch with SpaceX is expected later this year. SpaceX is building its own broadband constellation in LEO, a giant network called Starlink that already includes more than 2,000 satellites. And Starlink will get much larger still, if all goes according to plan; SpaceX has permission to launch 12,000 Starlink sa...

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AT&T and OneWeb Plan Satellite Access for Business in Remote Areas Across the US High-Speed Broadband Connectivity Delivered via Satellite to extend AT&T’s network reach in Hard-to-Serve Areas Outside AT&T Fiber Footprint What’s the news? AT&T* has signed a strategic agreement with OneWeb, the low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite communications company, to harness the capabilities of satellite technology to improve access for AT&T business customers into remote and challenging geographic locations. The new connectivity will complement existing AT&T access technologies. Why is this important? AT&T’s i However, there are still remote areas that existing networks can’t reach with the high-speed, low-latency broadband essential to business operations. Who can use this? AT&T will use this technology to enhance connectivity when connecting to its enterprise, small and medium-sized business and government customers as well as hard-to-reach cell towers. Where will it work? The AT&T service will be supported by OneWeb’s network of satellites. OneWeb has launched 288 satellites and expects to attain global coverage with a total fleet of 648 satellites by the end of 2022. AT&T business and government customers in Alaska will be covered later this year and coverage will expand across the U.S. in 2022. What are people saying? “Working with OneWeb, we’ll be able to enhance high-speed connectivity in places that we don’t serve today and meet our customers wherever they are,” said Scott Mair, ...

Toulouse, 14 January 2022 – Airbus has been contracted to supply space start-up Loft Orbital with more than fifteen satellite platforms derived from the Airbus Arrow platform. Arrow is the foundational satellite platform of the OneWeb constellation. There are 394 Airbus Arrow platforms in orbit for the OneWeb constellation and a further 254 are being produced to complete the 648 spacecraft required by OneWeb. With this acquisition, Loft Orbital confirms its intention to make the Airbus Arrow platform a true workhorse enabling its service business model. Loft Orbital offers a true end-to-end service enabling customers to rapidly deploy and operate their payloads on reliable high-performance satellites at an unprecedented simplicity and affordability. Loft Orbital has also contracted Airbus to modify the Arrow platform to make it suitable for a wider range of longer lifetime missions and applications. Loft Orbital has offices both in the USA and France, being based in the heart of Silicon Valley in San Francisco, and in the European space capital Toulouse, and intends to continue rapidly growing its French presence following this contract relationship with Airbus. Airbus previously benefitted from public support to develop the Arrow platform and OneWeb pilot line in Toulouse. Bruno Le Maire, French minister for the Economy, Finances and the Recovery, said: “This groundbreaking contract between start up Loft Orbital and global space leader Airbus is a very good news. It demon...

— — — OneWeb is building a 648-satellite broadband constellation in low Earth orbit, which will compete to some degree with SpaceX's Starlink. More than 460 OneWeb spacecraft had reached orbit before today's flight, the vast majority of them atop Russian-built That arrangement fell apart after The first liftoff under the NSIL deal occurred on Oct. 21, when an Indian GSLV Mark III rocket successfully A view of the final OneWeb internet satellite separating from SpaceX's Falcon 9 upper stage after a successful launch on Dec. 8, 2022. The bright objects in the background are other OneWeb satellites deployed earlier in the mission. (Image credit: Future) Thursday's liftoff had been scheduled for Tuesday (Dec. 6), but SpaceX pushed it back to Editor's note: This story was updated at 6 p.m. EST to note the successful liftoff of the OneWeb mission by SpaceX. An earlier version of this story incorrectly identified SpaceX's launch commentator. She is Youmei Zhou, a SpaceX propulsion engineer. The story was updated again at 9:35 p.m. EST with news of successful satellite deployment. Mike Wall is the author of " Out There " (Grand Central Publishing, 2018; illustrated by Karl Tate), a book about the search for alien life. Follow him on Twitter @michaeldwall . Follow us on Twitter @Spacedotcom or on Facebook .

In recent months, people have reported seeing a parade of star-like points passing across the night sky. The formation is not extraterrestrial, or even astrophysical in origin, but is in fact a line of satellites, recently launched by SpaceX, that will eventually be joined by many more to form Starlink, a “megaconstellation” that will wrap around the Earth as a global network designed to beam high-speed internet to users anywhere in the world. Starlink is among a handful of global satellite networks currently in development (though not without controversy, due to effects on our view of the night sky). Each is designed to deploy thousands of satellites at various altitudes and inclination angles to the Earth, to connect remote and rural users to the internet. Now researchers in MIT’s Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics have run a comparison of the four largest global satellite network proposals, from SpaceX, Telesat, OneWeb, and Amazon. The researchers calculated each network’s throughput, or global data capacity, based on their technical specifications as reported to the Federal Communications Commission. While the networks vary in their proposed number and configuration of satellites, ground stations, and communication capabilities, the team found that each constellation could provide a total capacity of around tens of terabits per second. As proposed, these megaconstellations would likely not replace current land-based networks, which can support thousands of tera...

Building hundreds of satellites for large constellations (648 satellites to be produced for OneWeb) requires radically new approaches. From satellite design-to-cost, production of equipment and satellite assembly, integration and testing, this means a revolution in space design and manufacturing. Airbus is innovating in all fields to tackle this unprecedented industrial challenge in the space industry to dramatically lower the cost in large volumes for high performance space applications. Arrow 150 is the best-in-class Low Earth Orbit (LEO) full electric satellite platform for large range of High or Low Data Rate missions. It is derived from the OneWeb spacecraft development and can be used for single satellites and constellations, and for missions such as communications, Earth observation/sciences, M2M/IoT, maritime and aero applications. OneWeb Satellites constellation • 648 satellites to provide affordable internet worldwide • 542 satellites launched as of January 2023 • Airbus OneWeb Satellites is the joint venture owned by Airbus and OneWeb As of January 2023, a total of 542 satellites had been delivered to orbit. Airbus, Europe's largest space company, and OneWeb, a company founded in 2012 with a mission to connect the unconnected, have formed a joint venture, Airbus OneWeb Satellites, to design and manufacture up to 648 satellites for the OneWeb constellation, which will provide affordable high-speed Internet access across the globe. The challenge is enormous, since...