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Title: OneWeb’s constellation of 700 low-altitude satellites will be built by Airbus Post by: bitnanigans on June 20, 2015, 03:07:50 PM Quote Airbus, the European aerospace giant, has won a contract to build 900 communications satellites for OneWeb's global high-speed satellite Internet service. OneWeb appears to be on target to launch 700 of the satellites in 2018. Both Richard Branson's Virgin Group and Qualcomm are still on board as major investors, and the project is expected to cost somewhere between £1.3 and £1.9 billion ($2-3 billion). SpaceX (with funding from Google) is also looking to compete in this same space, but its constellation isn't due until at least 2020. Rest of the article at http://arstechnica.co.uk/science/2015/06/onewebs-constellation-of-700-low-altitude-satellites-will-be-built-by-airbus/ Personally, I find this to be a very interesting project for satellite Internet. The latency will be lower since they're going to be low altitude. Title: Re: OneWeb’s constellation of 700 low-altitude satellites will be built by Airbus Post by: Wilikon on June 20, 2015, 04:37:27 PM Quote Airbus, the European aerospace giant, has won a contract to build 900 communications satellites for OneWeb's global high-speed satellite Internet service. OneWeb appears to be on target to launch 700 of the satellites in 2018. Both Richard Branson's Virgin Group and Qualcomm are still on board as major investors, and the project is expected to cost somewhere between £1.3 and £1.9 billion ($2-3 billion). SpaceX (with funding from Google) is also looking to compete in this same space, but its constellation isn't due until at least 2020. Rest of the article at http://arstechnica.co.uk/science/2015/06/onewebs-constellation-of-700-low-altitude-satellites-will-be-built-by-airbus/ Personally, I find this to be a very interesting project for satellite Internet. The latency will be lower since they're going to be low altitude. So each ISP will have 100s of sats around the planet...? Very crowded, very soon. |