A rocket carrying six satellites built by Airbus SE and partner OneWeb blasted o...
SEATTLE/PARIS - A rocket carrying six satellites built by Airbus SE and partner OneWeb blasted off from French Guiana on Wednesday, the first step in a plan to give millions of people in remote and rural areas high-speed internet beamed down from space.
“We are looking in the next five years at potentially 10,000 satellites needing to be launched and we don’t have the launch capacity at this moment to do that,” aerospace consultancy Teal Group analyst Marco Caceres said. OneWeb has raised more than $2 billion from investors including Airbus, Coca-Cola, Qualcomm Inc, SoftBank and Virgin Group. It aims to have global broadband coverage in 2021 from about 650 satellites.
Other firms say they are not far behind. Telesat, backed by Loral Space & Communications Inc, is targeting 2022 for broadband services from nearly 300 satellites. SpaceX has not chosen a location to manufacture the satellites or made a final decision on how it will build, sell and service the terminals that will link the satellite-based internet to users, people with direct knowledge of the project said.
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