Posted on 07/27/2022 8:21:38 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear
U.K. satellite operator OneWeb plans to join forces with European rival Eutelsat in a deal the two companies hope will help them take on Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
The all-stock merger will see Eutelsat issue 230 million new shares and exchange them for all remaining shares of OneWeb, according to a press release Tuesday......
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Visited their headquarters in Paris. Tight security.
never hear about Arianespace anymore
This should be fun, if they last long enough.
Kessler Effect Here We Come!
It’s gonna get pretty crowded in the low earth orbit space. It’s easy for me to predict a coming shakeout of the weaker commercial competitors.
Really? Arianespace just had a very successful and accurate launch of the Jame$ Webb $pace Tele$cope in December on a Araine 5 rocket. There are 9 more Araine 5s to go, and they are preparing an initial Araine 6 rocket for the first half of 2023.
Arianespace recognizes they're behind on reusable vehicles, and so are planning on some kind of partially-reusable "Araine Next" rocket for the 2030s. We'll see what they come up with, when. (Subsidies breed complacency…)
might i rephrase that, “I” haven’t heard of them lately
guess maybe because it’s not “news” anymore
Who’s going to launch their satellites?
I was on the waiting list for starlink. ITS COMING. My viasat dish is worthless. I am using an Amazon wifi box with a phone Sim card to work from home. It’s 10x faster than viasat. I can’t even watch TV using viasat because it uses all my wifi in the 1st week. Yeah!! Oh and it’s 99 a month. Not 138.
“I was on the waiting list for starlink.”
Have you checked on T Mobile Home internet? Might be a viable alternative.
With the latest launch, Musk said the coverage was now global(where allowed).
Money is one thing, technology is another. It will take more than mere money to compete with SpaceX now, and will only get worse, once they have Starships operational at US$1M per launch.
Yep. Cost 599 upfront though. Retiring soon. 99 a month with an internet that actually works is a good thing.
SpaceX is launching OneWeb’s satellites starting September.
OneWeb was using Russian rockets before but then the war screwed up that deal so they signed up with SpaceX
Don't forget that OneWeb already went bankrupt once before and was rescued by a big investment by the British government.
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