30 March 2020
OneWeb files for bankruptcy over financial difficulties
... Mbps and latency of 32 ms. However the company faces stiff competition from competitors such as Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starlink megaconstellation and Jeff Bezos’s Project Kuiper initiative. Musk has recently been granted a license by the FCC...
12 January 2021
Skyrora reveal new UK-built vehicle in live test
... OneWeb looking to launch over 600 smallsats as part of their internet connectivity mission and SpaceX looking to build a Starlink constellation of 42,000 satellites, there will be as much demand for in-space operations as there will be for launch...
25 January 2021
SpaceX rocket deploys record number of payloads in one flight
... successfully deployed. SpaceX aims to send thousands of small satellites into space to form a global broadband system called Starlink. Scientists have expressed concerns about the number of objects clogging the space around Earth. SpaceX say...
12 April 2021
Mega-constellations drive buoyant smallsat market
... stakeholders. According to Euroconsult, flagship examples of low Earth orbit (LEO) broadband constellations - such as SpaceX's Starlink and Amazon's Kuiper - account for almost half of the projected demand up to 2030. Euroconsult advises analysts...
