UK Team To Develop Beam-Hopping LEO Constellation Satellite

OneWeb’s Joey-Sat is scheduled to demonstrate remote digital beam-hopping in low Earth orbit in 2022.
Credit: OneWeb
Constellation operator OneWeb is to lead a consortium of UK companies in developing a next-generation beam-hopping low Earth orbit communications satellite. The team has received £32 million ($45 million) in funding from the UK Space Agency, via the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Sunrise program, to...
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