OneWeb is a communications company enabling internet access for everyone. It is building a communications network with a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites that will provide connectivity to people around the world. It aims to deliver new solutions for Broadband, Government and Cellular Backhaul. Its high-speed, low-latency network will offer mobility solutions to industries such as aviation, maritime, automotive, trains, and others.
Timeline
May 2020
OneWeb asks the Federal Communications Commission for permission to launch as many as 48,000 satellites.
March 2020
OneWeb files for bankruptcy.
February 7, 2020
OneWeb launches 34 satellites from Kazakh cosmodrome in global internet push
September 17, 2019
Iridium Communications Inc. and OneWeb announces they have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to work together toward a combined service offering.
With the first six satellites already launched, OneWeb's system has already demonstrated broadband speeds of 400 Mbps and an average latency of 32 milliseconds.
The company has recently completed its next-generation satellite network and launched its specialty broadband service, Iridium Certus®.
February 2019
OneWeb launches the first six satellites of its mega-constellation.
2014
OneWeb was founded by entrepreneur Greg Wyler.
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Adrian Steckel
CEO
Greg Wyler
Founder
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OneWeb Launches Satellites (And Lands $1.25B in Capital)
Web
OneWeb plans April launch break to tweak satellite design - SpaceNews.com
Caleb Henry
Web
February 6, 2020
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Jonathan Amos
September 15, 2020
BBC News
Grants will promote ideas to detect, characterise and track the millions of objects moving overhead.
Jon Brodkin
August 28, 2020
Ars Technica
The problem can be minimized but never fully solved, astronomers' report says.
Jon Brodkin
August 27, 2020
Ars Technica
OneWeb can launch up to 2,000 satellites, seeks permission for another 48,000.
T E Narasimhan
August 20, 2020
@bsindia
UK-based company proposes to put up 648 satellites to deliver affordable wireless internet
Becky Ferreira
August 10, 2020
www.nytimes.com
The F.C.C. approved the company's 3,236-satellite constellation, which aims to provide high-speed internet service around the world.
Press Trust of India
July 23, 2020
@bsindia
As part of the deal, Sharma had confirmed that the UK will invest $500 million and take a significant equity share in London-based OneWeb, which had declared bankruptcy earlier this year
BBC News
July 22, 2020
BBC News
MPs will probe a £400m investment in the satellite firm after a top civil servant warned of financial risk.
Stanley Reed
July 10, 2020
www.nytimes.com
Pushed by Brexit, the U.K. government will have a platform to expand into the space business.
Jonathan Amos
July 10, 2020
BBC News
A New York court hearing accepts the plan to pull the OneWeb satellite company out of bankruptcy.
Eric Berger
July 10, 2020
Ars Technica
"iRocket will be competing with SpaceX."
Megha Manchanda
July 3, 2020
@bsindia
The deal could be a game-changer for hinterland connectivity.
Kim Lyons
July 3, 2020
The Verge
As part of a consortium that includes Indian telecom Bharti Global, the UK government will invest $500 million and take a "significant equity share" in space exploration firm OneWeb, it announced Friday. Bharti Global also will invest $500 million as part of the deal.
BBC News
July 3, 2020
BBC News
The UK helps rescue company from bankruptcy as part of a plan to replace the EU's Galileo sat-nav system.
Reuters
July 1, 2020
@bsindia
OneWeb filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy at the end of March after its biggest investor SoftBank Group Corp pulled funding, with an auction for the startup due to start on Thursday.
Telegraph reporters
June 25, 2020
The Telegraph
The UK is on course to spend £402 million on a stake in OneWeb, the US satellite operator
Eric Berger
April 6, 2020
Ars Technica
"The smartest thing for the government to do to help the industry is to let contracts."
Jon Brodkin
March 30, 2020
Ars Technica
OneWeb says pandemic ended chance of getting enough funding for full launch.
Kim Lyons
March 28, 2020
The Verge
Space exploration firm OneWeb has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, leaving uncertainty about the 74 satellites it has in orbit and its plans to provide high-speed internet from space.
Condé Nast
March 27, 2020
Wired
The company planned to put 650 internet satellites into orbit. But it only managed to launch 74 before its coffers ran dry, according to a report out today.
March 24, 2020
Space Daily
Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Mar 24, 2020 - When 34 Airbus OneWeb Satellites (OneWeb) launched onboard a Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, on March 21 RUAG Space had critical mission products onboard that were customized
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Crunchbase
Pitchbook
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OneWeb, Ltd
Founded date
2012
Email address
contact@oneweb.net
Total funding amount (USD)
2,450,000,000
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ONEWEB.WORLD
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WorldVu Satellites
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