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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EchoStar was building and shipping gateway ground stations to OneWeb before OneWeb filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on 2020-03-27.
EchoStar held a 2.57% stake in OneWeb and had a $190,000,000 gateway production contract with OneWeb.
OneWeb had launched 74 of a targeted 650 small broadband satellites at the time it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
The OneWeb gateways EchoStar worked on were designed to switch data traffic between satellites at a rate of 10,000 user terminals per second.
OneWeb’s bankruptcy court set an auction date of 2020-07-02 and required prospective buyers to file a final bid by 2020-06-26 to participate.
Iridium and OneWeb established a partnership in September to develop a combined service pairing Iridium’s L-band connectivity with OneWeb’s future Ku-band service.
The March bankruptcy of OneWeb left eight Soyuz launches in limbo, of which two would have launched from the Guiana Space Centre and six were planned to launch from Russia and Kazakhstan.
OneWeb is raising the last 34 satellites it launched before going bankrupt to a 600-kilometer orbit instead of their original 1,200-kilometer target.
SolAero invested $10,000,000 to expand its manufacturing facilities with OneWeb as its anchor customer.
SolAero Technologies began working with OneWeb in 2014 and secured a manufacturing contract from OneWeb Satellites in 2016.
OneWeb reached the International Telecommunication Union’s 10% milestone in March 2020 with 74 satellites in orbit.
Sodern shipped 200 of an anticipated 1,800 Auriga star trackers to OneWeb.
OneWeb filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on 2020-03-27 after launching 74 satellites.
OneWeb began using its spectrum after the launch of its first six satellites on 2019-02-27 from French Guiana on a Soyuz rocket.
Teledyne held a $95,000,000 contract to provide signal converters and filter assemblies for OneWeb and prepared to incur a $40,000,000 pretax charge because of OneWeb’s bankruptcy.
OneWeb expected to have one or more binding spectrum bids by 2020-06-12 with a court-approved auction by 2020-06-22.
OneWeb Satellites is a joint venture between OneWeb and Airbus created to build OneWeb’s constellation.
OneWeb’s two most valuable spectrum filings cover a 720-satellite constellation with Ku-band downlinks and Ka-band uplinks.
Arianespace arranged all three of OneWeb’s launches and was under contract to provide 21 Soyuz launches and to carry a batch of 30 OneWeb satellites on the maiden launch of Ariane 6.
OneWeb and Leosat have exited the LEO broadband field, leaving three remaining contenders: Amazon, SpaceX, and Telesat.