Tag: broadband
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SpaceX Starlink satellite veterans join Amazon’s competing Project Kuiper team
SpaceX’s two prototype Starlink satellites are seen on either side of their carrier in advance of their launch last year. Industry sources say some of the engineers who were involved in developing those prototypes will be playing leadership roles in Amazon’s Project Kuiper. (SpaceX via YouTube) The leadership team for Amazon’s newly revealed broadband satellite…
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Relativity joins Blue Origin to provide launches for Telesat’s broadband satellites
An artist’s conception shows Relativity Space’s Terran 1 rocket lifting off from Launch Complex 16 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. (Relativity Space Illustration) Relativity Space CEO Tim Ellis is a veteran of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture — and in a sense, you could say that Ellis and Blue Origin are…
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Amazon to offer broadband access from orbit with 3,236-satellite ‘Project Kuiper’ constellation
A composite photo from the Suomi National Polar-Orbiting Partnership satellite shows North America at night. Broadband satellite constellations promise to knit the world even closer together. (NASA / NOAA Photo) Amazon is joining the race to provide broadband internet access around the globe via thousands of satellites in low Earth orbit, newly uncovered filings show.…
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Soyuz launch deploys last of O3b’s first-generation broadband satellites
A Soyuz ST-B rocket lifts off from the Guiana Space Center on Thursday. Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Photo Optique Video du CSG – JM Guillon The launch of a Soyuz rocket from French Guiana with four more satellites Thursday to join SES’s O3b broadband network will help satisfy growing bandwidth demands in Latin America, Africa and…
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Live coverage: Four more O3b broadband launch aboard Soyuz rocket
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a Soyuz rocket from French Guiana with four O3b broadband satellites for SES Networks. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter. Arianespace’s live video stream begins at 1615 GMT (12:15 p.m. EDT) and will be available here. If you appreciate what we do, please consider…
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Two Soyuz rockets rolled out for launches on different continents
Russian ground crews working in starkly different environments on the barren steppes of Kazakhstan and in the lush jungles of South America are readying a pair of Soyuz rockets for two launches Thursday, one to resupply the International Space Station, and another to broaden the capacity of SES’s O3b Internet network. The two launches…
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Investors commit another $1.25 billion to fund OneWeb’s internet satellite system
An artist’s conception shows a OneWeb satellite in orbit. (OneWeb Illustration) The international OneWeb consortium says it’s raised another $1.25 billion in funding for its internet satellite constellation, ensuring a ramp-up in its production and launch campaign with the aim of offering high-speed global access by 2021. OneWeb says its new capital infusion is coming…
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OneWeb announced as customer for inaugural Ariane 6 launch
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated March 7 to correct OneWeb Satellites factory details. Artist’s illustration of an Ariane 6 rocket launching a constellation of small satellites. Credit: ArianeGroup Arianespace has announced OneWeb, the broadband Internet provider seeking to deploy more than 600 satellites into low Earth orbit, as the launch customer for the inaugural flight of the new Ariane…
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Video: First OneWeb satellites deployed in orbit
A camera mounted on-board the upper stage of a Soyuz rocket launched Wednesday from South America captured dazzling views of the first six OneWeb broadband satellites separating from their carrier module more than 600 miles (about 1,000 kilometers) above Earth. The video released by Arianespace shows the six 325-pound (147.7-kilogram) spacecraft, each about the size…
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Photos: Soyuz lifts off on first OneWeb mission
A Soyuz booster vaulted into a sunset sky over French Guiana on Wednesday evening, arcing north from the jungle spaceport in South America with six satellites to inaugurate OneWeb’s global broadband network. The Soyuz ST-B rocket, fueled by kerosene and liquid oxygen, lifted off from the Guiana Space Center at 6:37 p.m. local time Wednesday…