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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OneWeb welcomed the new SBPP study and offered to work with partners to develop position, navigation, and timing solutions across a global footprint for the U.K. and partners.
The British government and Indian company Bharti Global are acquiring OneWeb from bankruptcy.
Arianespace will conduct 16 Soyuz launches for OneWeb, each carrying 34–36 satellites, to complete OneWeb’s internet megaconstellation by the end of 2022.
Arianespace and OneWeb revised their launch contract on 2020-09-21 to cover OneWeb’s constellation deployment with three fewer launches than originally planned.
Two of the 16 Soyuz launches for OneWeb will take place from the Guiana Space Centre in French Guiana.
Virgin Orbit asked OneWeb’s bankruptcy court to require OneWeb to pay $46,300,000 as a contract termination fee for 35 LauncherOne missions canceled in 2018.
In July, the British government and Indian telecom company Bharti Global announced plans to purchase OneWeb out of bankruptcy and resume deployment of OneWeb’s global low-Earth-orbit broadband constellation.
Virgin Orbit asserted that the OneWeb cancellations triggered a $70,000,000 termination fee, of which $46,300,000 remained outstanding.
Bharti Enterprises planned to build two or three gateway stations in India for domestic OneWeb services.
OneWeb planned to provide broadband early in 2022 from a constellation of low-Earth-orbit satellites.
Bharti Enterprises is asking the Indian Space Research Organisation to help develop user terminals for OneWeb and to collaborate on providing broadband across India.
OneWeb planned a constellation of about 648 satellites at an altitude of 1,200 km to provide global coverage.
Bharti Enterprises and the British government are buying OneWeb and each pledged to invest $500,000,000 to revive the bankrupt venture.
OneWeb’s plan is to start delivering services in the early part of 2022 once the constellation is sufficiently deployed.
OneWeb Satellites continued production throughout OneWeb’s Chapter 11 process and during the COVID-19 pandemic, producing flight modules and completing final integration at about one satellite per week.
OneWeb filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection shortly after 34 satellites launched on 2020-03-21.
OneWeb Satellites planned to produce satellites at the Florida factory at a rate of two satellites per day.
OneWeb Satellites operates a manufacturing facility in Merritt Island, Florida.
OneWeb Satellites inaugurated an $85,000,000 factory in Florida in July to produce low Earth orbit satellites for OneWeb’s broadband megaconstellation.
Airbus, which owns 50 percent of OneWeb Satellites, has kept the Florida factory open and is preparing to ramp up production to eight satellites per week later 2020.