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OneWeb and Marlink plan to expand their collaboration to maritime, energy, enterprise, and humanitarian sectors on a global scale starting in January 2023.
OneWeb raised $2,700,000,000 since November 2020 and is fully funded with no debt issuance.
OneWeb plans to launch global service by the end of 2022.
Astroscale won a contract from the U.K. Space Agency in October 2024 to study deorbiting two defunct British satellites, including a possible OneWeb satellite that failed in 2023.
OneWeb has deployed 358 satellites at 1,200 km through 11 launches with loss of only one satellite to date.
OneWeb plans to deploy nearly 650 satellites by the time it rolls out global broadband services next year.
On 2021-10-26, OneWeb expects to launch commercial services in the upper part of the Northern Hemisphere 2021, with global services to follow in 2022.
OneWeb expects to launch commercial services in the upper reaches of the Northern Hemisphere later 2021.
Eutelsat activated a call option on 2021-10-06 to invest an extra $165,000,000 and will become OneWeb’s second-largest shareholder with nearly 23% once the deal closes.
Eutelsat will own nearly 23% of OneWeb once the transaction closes, giving the Paris-based satellite operator the second-largest stake behind Bharti Global’s 30% share.
OneWeb and Intellian created the smallest flat panel antenna for their LEO constellation, aimed at enterprise and government customers in 2022.
Sunil Bharti Mittal, OneWeb's executive chair, announced on September 8 that OneWeb aims to launch services within 30 to 60 days.
OneWeb has raised $2,700,000,000 since November 2020 with no debt issuance.
OneWeb plans to launch commercial services in the upper part of the Northern Hemisphere within 60–90 days as of 2021-09-08.
OneWeb plans to launch full commercial services in 2022.
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 plans to launch partial services in the Northern Hemisphere in the coming months and full global services later in 2022.
OneWeb has 288 satellites in orbit and aims to deploy a constellation of 650 satellites to provide global communications services.
OneWeb has raised $2,700,000,000 in equity from an international mix of investors, which is $300,000,000 more than the company estimated it needed to fund its initial satellite deployment.
The OW1 user terminal is the smallest user terminal unveiled by OneWeb and offers high-speed internet connectivity to businesses, governments, communities, and remote locations.