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Airbus Defence and Space has secured a contract from Eutelsat for the construction of 340 OneWeb low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites.
Most of the over 650 OneWeb satellites launched in LEO were deployed between 2020 and 2023, and their design life is expected to continue until 2027 or 2028.
Eutelsat plans to invest up to 2.2 billion euros to maintain OneWeb's required 440 satellites over the coming years.
Taiwan signed a multi-million dollar deal with Eutelsat, the world's second-largest operator of LEO satellites, which has more than 600 satellites after a merger with OneWeb in 2023.
Most of OneWeb’s 654 current-generation satellites were launched between 2020 and 2023.
Most of the 633 satellites in OneWeb’s current generation were launched between 2020 and 2023.
Eutelsat operates the second-largest NGSO network with more than 630 OneWeb satellites.
Intelsat won a deal to equip nearly 500 regional jets operated by American Airlines with an antenna that could connect to GEO and OneWeb satellites in LEO.
OneWeb completed its 18th launch on 2023-03-26 from Sriharikota, India.
OneWeb successfully deployed 16 satellites on the 2023-05-20 SpaceX launch to increase resilience and redundancy in the OneWeb constellation.
Eutelsat plans to issue a request for proposals to find companies to build OneWeb’s second-generation constellation most likely within the three months to the end of June 2023.
The European Commission acknowledged that the inflight connectivity industry is undergoing a transition as Starlink, OneWeb, and other non-geostationary orbit operators enter or plan to launch IFC services.
OneWeb plans to expand services soon across the United States, southern Europe, Australia, and the Middle East.
OneWeb successfully deployed 40 satellites launched by SpaceX from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
With 502 satellites in orbit, OneWeb has almost 80% of its first-generation constellation completed.
The 2022-12-08 launch brought OneWeb to almost 80% of its planned low Earth orbit satellite fleet.
SpaceX delayed its first launch for OneWeb from 2022-12-06 to 2022-12-08 for additional pre-launch checks.
SpaceX is slated to launch 40 OneWeb satellites as early as 2022-12-06 to complete almost 80% of OneWeb's low Earth orbit broadband constellation.
ISRO’s 2022 launch campaign included a February PSLV mission that placed three satellites into low Earth orbit, a June PSLV mission that launched three satellites, the failed maiden flight of the Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV) in August, and a successful Oct. launch of 36 OneWeb satellites on a GSLV 2022-03-03.
Q-KON Africa's Twoobii service aims to expand its successful Smart Satellite Services for Southern Africa using OneWeb's technology.