Eutelsat OneWeb (formerly OneWeb) is a satellite communications company aiming to bridge the digital divide by providing high-speed, low-latency broadband internet services globally via a low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellation. As a subsidiary of Eutelsat Group, it focuses on delivering connectivity solutions to governments, enterprises, and communities in underserved areas, as well as to the maritime and aviation sectors. Key partners include distribution partners, Airbus (through OneWeb Satellites, a joint venture for satellite manufacturing), and technology providers like Microsoft Azure and AWS for network peering.
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With the launch of 36 OneWeb satellites on Flight ST29, Arianespace had orbited a total of 239 spacecraft from Airbus Defence and Space.
Arianespace and its Starsem affiliate launched an additional 34 OneWeb satellites on Soyuz Flight ST28 on 2020-03-20.
Arianespace and its Starsem affiliate launched 34 OneWeb satellites from Baikonur Cosmodrome on Soyuz Flight ST27 on 2020-02-07.
The newly launched OneWeb spacecraft will use onboard propulsion to move from 450 km to their final orbits at an altitude of 1,200 km.
Arianespace and Starsem have an amended launch contract with OneWeb to perform 15 more Soyuz launches through 2021 and 2022.
OneWeb Satellites produced the OneWeb satellites in Florida, USA using a series production line capable of building up to two satellites per day.
A group led by Indian telecom company Bharti Global and the British government won a $1,000,000,000 bid for OneWeb’s assets in July and closed the deal on 2020-11-20.
On 2020-12-09, Sunil Bharti Mittal, executive chairman of OneWeb, set the company’s funding requirement at $2.5 billion, with nearly half of that amount already raised.
OneWeb concluded a revised contract with Arianespace in September that covers 16 Soyuz launches at a pace of roughly once a month to deploy a 648-satellite constellation.
OneWeb aims to have enough satellites in orbit to provide service at latitudes above 50 degrees north by the fall of 2021 and to have the full constellation in operation by the middle of 2022.
The OneWeb Satellites factory in Florida is operating at full capacity and producing two satellites a day.
OneWeb planned to begin commercial services starting at the end of 2021 to the UK, Alaska, Canada, Northern Europe, Greenland, Iceland, and the Arctic Seas.
The 36 satellites from the 2020-12-18 launch will join 76 OneWeb satellites previously launched on three earlier Soyuz flights.
Arianespace’s backlog of payloads remaining to be launched for Airbus Defence and Space, excluding remaining OneWeb satellites, counts 22 additional payloads.
Once deployed, the OneWeb constellation will enable user terminals capable of offering 0.003 kg, LTE, 0.005 kg and Wi‑Fi coverage by air, sea, and land.
Since announcing New Glenn in 2016, Blue Origin has secured commercial customers including Eutelsat, Mu Space, OneWeb, Sky Perfect JSAT, and Telesat.
Hughes has agreed in principle to invest $50,000,000 in the consortium that now owns OneWeb.
Hughes will produce the gateway electronics for the OneWeb system and the core module that will be used in every OneWeb user terminal under a three-year contract valued at approximately $250,000,000.
Hughes Network Systems, LLC has been selected by OneWeb to develop and manufacture essential ground system technology for OneWeb’s new LEO constellation.
OneWeb plans to provide service in northern latitudes above 50 degrees north by October or November 2021.