OneWeb, the Low Earth Orbit (LEO) global satellite communications company, has confirmed plans to launch a further 36 satellites into LEO on April 26th as part of its sixth launch. The launch will be conducted by Arianespace and the mission to insert the satellites into initial orbit – prior to raising to operational orbit – […]
An Arianespace Soyuz rocket is being prepared to carry the next 36 satellites into orbit for the mega-constellation from OneWeb. The launch is currently scheduled to take place from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in the Far East of Russia on April 26th. Once completed, the launch will mean that OneWeb will have 182 satellites in orbit […]
Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, reports that the past week had seen two of Elon Musk’s Starlink craft have re-entered the atmosphere and burned up. McDowell says two Starlinks – which were already ‘retired’ from the fleet – came down at about 14.30 UTC on April 17 and another at […]
Just days after OneWeb signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Kazakhstan, SES has done the same. SES has signed a MoU with Kazakhstan for its O3b mPOWER satellite fleet. The agreement has been signed specifically with the country’s Republican Center for Space Communications (RCSC), a subsidiary of the Ministry of Digital Development, Innovation and […]
The demand for broadband connectivity over both fixed and mobile broadband networks is increasing dramatically. However, despite network expansions and upgrades, only half of households worldwide currently have access to fixed broadband services. With the rollout of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) constellations, satellite broadband services will improve broadband penetration significantly. Global tech market advisory firm […]
Ottawa-based Telesat is reportedly “racing” to launch its 298-craft Low Earth orbiting satellite platform. Even though Telesat is some two years behind Elon Musk’s Starlink, the Canadian company’s CEO, Dan Goldberg says Telesat’s Lightspeed LEO system will be the company’s “Holy Grail” and deliver a “sustainable competitive advantage in global broadband delivery”. Telesat is certainly […]
OneWeb has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Kazakh government, along with what the satellite operator describes as “local partners”. The agreement is with Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Digital Development, Innovation and Aerospace Industry: national satellite operator Republican Centre of Space Communications JSC, National Company Kazakhstan Gharysh Sapary and Ghalam LLP, described as a spacecraft […]
Investment bank Exane/BNPP, in a report on the state of the satellite industry, talks optimistically about the prospects for Elon Musk’s Starlink mega-constellation. Analyst Sami Kassab says that Starlink, and the constellations from OneWeb and Telesat (Lightspeed) will “change industry economics for good.” “For the last six decades, the economics of the satellite industry were […]
OneWeb, the global communications company powered from Space, has announced the appointment of Per Borgklint as Chief Commercial Officer (CCO). Borgklint joins OneWeb with more than 20 years’ experience in leadership positions across telco, media, and software, including the Swedish multinational Ericsson, and CEO positions at Net1, Canal+, Tele2 Netherlands, and Optimal Telecom. Borgklint will […]
OneWeb (and its WorldVu business) and Intelsat have “consensually” settled and withdrawn their claims on each other as part of Intelsat’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy reconstruction. OneWeb itself also spent part of last year in Chapter 11. The filing into Intelsat’s bankruptcy court on March 29th stated: “Intelsat and the Reorganized Debtors of OneWeb will work […]