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On 2021-09-07, Kymeta successfully tested its u8 broadband terminal on OneWeb’s low-Earth-orbit constellation, achieving 200 megabits per second downlink speeds.
OneWeb expects to complete Southern Hemisphere coverage by summer 2022 and global coverage by the end of 2022.
Neil Masterson helped OneWeb secure more than $2,400,000,000 of funding to fully fund its initial constellation without incurring debt.
Neil Masterson joined OneWeb as CEO in November 2020 after spending roughly two decades at Thomson Reuters where he was most recently co-chief operating officer.
OneWeb was founded in 2012 to connect schools and provide consumer broadband to underserved regions.
OneWeb plans to launch full commercial services in 2022.
Eutelsat closed a $550,000,000 equity investment in OneWeb on 2021-09-08.
OneWeb partnered with local telco Alaska Communications to support services in Alaska.
OneWeb’s enterprise-grade network has capability to serve hard-to-reach businesses and communities and to support improved capacity and coverage in remote, rural, and challenging geographic locations.
OneWeb is exploring offering a global navigation service from LEO and believes it can provide a navigation capability with its existing first-generation satellites and complete it with the second generation.
OneWeb has deployed enough satellite coverage to provide service from 50 degrees north to the North Pole by the end of 2021.
OneWeb is conducting alpha testing of its network and plans to move into beta testing in fall 2021 with a target to begin service for paying customers by the end of 2021.
Hanwha made a strategic investment that provides OneWeb an additional $300,000,000 on top of the $2,400,000,000 previously identified for the initial constellation.
OneWeb had deployed nearly 300 satellites to low Earth orbit by the end of August 2021, representing 44% of its planned constellation.
OneWeb’s constellation is planned to include 648 satellites and nearly half of that 648-strong constellation had been deployed at the time of the report.
OneWeb expected to launch partial services in the Northern Hemisphere within 60 to 90 days from the time of the report.
OneWeb was engaged in distributor partnership discussions with multiple telecom partners and had an earlier distributor partnership with British telco BT announced on 2021-06-27.
Airbus is part of the OneWeb Satellites joint venture that is producing satellites for the OneWeb constellation.
AT&T signed a strategic agreement with OneWeb to use satellite technology to improve access for AT&T business customers in remote and challenging geographic locations.
OneWeb has teamed with antenna manufacturer Kymeta to develop an electronically steered flat panel antenna designed to communicate with geostationary satellites using government modems and with OneWeb’s LEO satellites.