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Arianespace and its Starsem affiliate launched 34 OneWeb satellites from Baikonur Cosmodrome on Soyuz Flight ST27 on 2020-02-07.
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.
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.
With the launch of 36 OneWeb satellites on Flight ST29, Arianespace had orbited a total of 239 spacecraft from Airbus Defence and Space.
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 and its Starsem affiliate launched an additional 34 OneWeb satellites on Soyuz Flight ST28 on 2020-03-20.
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.
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.
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.
Arianespace and Starsem have an amended launch contract with OneWeb to perform 15 more Soyuz launches through 2021 and 2022.
Arianespace’s backlog of payloads remaining to be launched for Airbus Defence and Space, excluding remaining OneWeb satellites, counts 22 additional payloads.
Since announcing New Glenn in 2016, Blue Origin has secured commercial customers including Eutelsat, Mu Space, OneWeb, Sky Perfect JSAT, and Telesat.
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.
Hughes has agreed in principle to invest $50,000,000 in the consortium that now owns OneWeb.
Bharti provided $500,000,000 to OneWeb as part of support for the company.
Bharti Enterprises and the U.K. government joined forces to acquire OneWeb out of Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
OneWeb plans to achieve full global coverage in May or June 2022.