March 2021
Eyes on the prize
... UK government is making huge investments in the British space industry, one example being its £400 million investment in OneWeb. Post-Brexit it has pledged to double down on its commitment to increase R&D spending across the UK to levels not seen...
April 2021
Satellites in the cloud: data from orbit
.... Amazon’s $10 billion commitment to its Kuiper constellation places it alongside other major non-GEOs, notably SpaceX (Starlink), OneWeb, SES (O3b mPOWER) and Telesat. Microsoft’s partnerships with SES and SpaceX further provides an entry point...
August 2021
Collision avoidance – time for agreement on space sustainability
... fashion. Adherence to the principles articulated within these guidelines would be a good place to start. A Soyuz rocket, with 36 OneWeb satellites aboard, launched from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in March 2021, taking its in-orbit constellation to 146...
September 2021
Developing an in-orbit servicing and manufacturing economy
...servicing costs, while standardisation and modularisation of satellite design will help to facilitate the adoption of such services. OneWeb, for example, has already committed to fitting docking plates on all of its satellites to make them compatible...
May 2022
The Space Industry in 2022
... SES come on-line. At the same time, new low Earth orbit mega-constellations such as Starlink and OneWeb are gearing up for commercial services. While we see strong demand for broadband, mobility recovery and growing...
June 2022
Space logistics: achieving end-to-end mobility for space
... industry era, commercial constellations are being deployed at an unprecedented rate by both start-ups and legacy actors: OneWeb, Starlink or Telesat for broadband; Kineis, Astrocast or Myriota for Internet of things (IoT); and Planet, Iceye...
