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Intelsat’s direct dialogue with SoftBank stopped suddenly in April 2018 while SoftBank was actively seeking to sell its investment in OneWeb.
Discussions among OneWeb, SoftBank, and Intelsat continued beyond 2018-03-31 despite an amended agreement stating that SoftBank agreed to sell OneWeb Services to Intelsat pursuant to a master service agreement to be negotiated on or prior to 2018-03-31.
OneWeb planned to focus its business on offering broadband access to consumers worldwide and providing communications services in underserved geographic areas.
OneWeb has six of a planned 650 initial satellites in orbit using Ku-band frequencies.
Iridium and OneWeb signed a memorandum of understanding at Iridium’s annual partner conference in Coronado, California on 2019-09-17.
Arianespace subsidiary Starsem was scheduled to perform OneWeb’s second launch in November or December 2019 from Kazakhstan’s Baikonur Cosmodrome.
OneWeb signed on for the first flight of the Ariane 6 rocket in 2019.
OneWeb selected an orbital altitude of 1,200 km for its satellites in part because the population of existing satellites and debris is lower at that altitude compared to 800–900 km.
OneWeb launched a Responsible Space initiative in June 2019 that includes a public website at www.responsible.space.
OneWeb opened a new factory in Florida that will produce two OneWeb satellites per day.
OneWeb plans to begin monthly Soyuz launches in December to deploy an initial constellation of 650 broadband satellites by the end of 2021.
SpaceX, OneWeb, and Kepler Communications plan to use Ku-band spectrum for their constellations.
OneWeb inaugurated a Florida factory in July where it plans to build its constellation through a joint venture with Airbus Defence and Space.
FCC regulations require OneWeb and other Ku-band constellations to coordinate with the observatory before beginning service in the United States.
Discussions between the NRAO and OneWeb have resumed for the first time since 2016 and include topics such as OneWeb satellite design, planned ground station locations relative to radio astronomy observatories, and the constellation's overall impact on radio astronomy.
The NRAO raised the issue with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission that OneWeb had not met the commission rule requiring coordination of spectrum adjacent to radio astronomy before beginning operations.
Virgin Orbit asserted that OneWeb owed $46,320,000 of a $70,000,000 termination fee.
OneWeb contends that Virgin Orbit’s estimate that it would earn between $234,000,000 and $832,000,000 from conducting launches for OneWeb overstates the contract's value.
OneWeb has paid Virgin Orbit more than $66 million, of which $18,000,000 went towards launches that are still expected to happen.
OneWeb succeeded on 2019-08-07 in bringing its Ku- and Ka-band spectrum into use under International Telecommunication Union rules with the first six satellites, ensuring spectrum access for the larger constellation.