Enlarge / A stack of OneWeb satellites is shown before a launch at Baikonur in Kazakhstan. (credit: OneWeb) OneWeb announced on Monday that it has reached an agreement with SpaceX to complete its constellation of low Earth orbit broadband satellites. This decision was necessitated after the United Kingdom-based company} decided it could no longer launch […]
Enlarge / A Soyuz rocket launches in 2020 carrying nearly three dozen OneWeb satellites into orbit. (credit: OneWeb) Russia has taken the extraordinary step of placing multiple demands on OneWeb and its government ownership prior to a planned launch of satellites Friday aboard a Soyuz rocket. The mission, to loft 34 broadband communications satellites into […]
Enlarge / Artist’s impression of low-Earth-orbit satellites like those launched by SpaceX and OneWeb. (credit: NOIRLab / NSF / AURA / P. Marenfeld) A UK government agency is worried that OneWeb, SpaceX’s Starlink, and similar low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite-broadband systems could block each others’ signals. Ofcom, the UK’s communications regulator, proposed new rules today […]
Enlarge / A stack of 60 Starlink satellites launched in 2019. (credit: SpaceX / Flickr) SpaceX has accused satellite-broadband rival OneWeb of spreading a false story claiming that the companies’ satellites nearly crashed into each other. In reality, “[t]he probability of collision never exceeded the threshold for a [collision-avoidance] maneuver, and the satellites would not […]
Expand / Instance of a OneWeb satellite. (charge: OneWeb) OneWeb has emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy under new ownership and claims it’ll start launch more broadband satellites following month. Very similar to SpaceX Starlink, OneWeb has been constructing a community of low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellites which may offer high-speed broadband using considerably lower latencies than […]