OneWeb

Once deployed, the satellites will boost the OneWeb Gen-1 constellation well past the 588 spacecraft needed for global coverage.

Just six more satellites are needed for full global coverage.

OneWeb intends to look beyond OneWeb Satellites, which it jointly owns with Airbus, for a manufacturing partner for its next-generation constellation.

OneWeb is set to complete its first-generation global broadband network in low Earth orbit with one more flight, slated for later this month.

The newest players in the space industry have some familiar names.

Small satellites dominated the space industry in terms of numbers, accounting for 95% of all spacecraft launched in 2022, according to a report by Bryce Tech.

The launch was the 16th devoted to deploying OneWeb’s initial 648-member constellation into low Earth orbit.

Eighteen days after OneWeb decided to suspend launches of its broadband satellites from Russia in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the company has signed with SpaceX.

Arianespace launched the latest batch of 36 OneWeb satellites into low Earth orbit on April 25.

Japan’s SoftBank has re-invested in OneWeb, the satellite communications company that was sent into Chapter 11 nine months ago after the Tokyo-based holding company withdrew its support.

OneWeb has renegotiated its contract with Arianespace and plans to resume launching its broadband satellite network in December, pending court approval of its Chapter 11 reorganization plan.

The British government and Bharti Global’s joint offer for the OneWeb satellite constellation has been given the nod by U.S. judges.

The British government is to make a $500 million investment in the failed communications satellite company OneWeb.

A Russian Soyuz rocket lifted off from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on March 21 to deliver another 34 satellites into orbit for OneWeb, which is