{"id":17805,"date":"2020-02-06T17:03:09","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T09:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/oneweb-sends-34-broadband-satellites-into-orbit-on-arianespace-soyuz-rocket-challenging-spacex\/"},"modified":"2020-02-06T17:03:09","modified_gmt":"2020-02-06T09:03:09","slug":"oneweb-sends-34-broadband-satellites-into-orbit-on-arianespace-soyuz-rocket-challenging-spacex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/oneweb-sends-34-broadband-satellites-into-orbit-on-arianespace-soyuz-rocket-challenging-spacex\/","title":{"rendered":"OneWeb sends 34 broadband satellites into orbit on Arianespace Soyuz rocket, challenging SpaceX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"34 OneWeb satellites launched atop Soyuz rocket\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N_-LMcdEdB8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\" data-width=\"800\" data-height=\"450\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px; width: 800px; height: 450px;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Europe\u2019s Arianespace launch consortium today used a Russian-made Soyuz rocket to send 34 satellites into a near-polar orbit for OneWeb\u2019s broadband internet constellation, sharpening a rivalry with SpaceX\u2019s Starlink satellite constellation.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Soyuz lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 2:42 a.m. Feb. 7 (1:42 p.m. PT Feb. 6) and successfully deployed the dishwasher-sized satellites over the course of three hours and 45 minutes. This was the second OneWeb mission, following up on last year\u2019s inaugural launch of six satellites.<\/li>\n<li>Like SpaceX, the London-based OneWeb consortium aims to provide broadband internet services via satellite for billions of people around the world who are currently underserved. And like SpaceX, OneWeb aims to begin limited service later this year, although OneWeb intends to start with the Arctic while SpaceX\u2019s first target market is expected to be in the middle latitudes, including the \u201cLower 48\u201d states.<\/li>\n<li>SpaceX\u2019s Starlink satellites have generated controversy because of their potential for interfering with astronomical observations. OneWeb\u2019s satellites will be in higher orbits, which suggests they won\u2019t be as bright, but there are added concerns about potential radio interference. The prospect of dueling constellations (with Amazon\u2019s Project Kuiper joining the fray in future years) also has fueled worries about space traffic management.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Europe\u2019s Arianespace launch consortium today used a Russian-made Soyuz rocket to send 34 satellites into a near-polar orbit for OneWeb\u2019s broadband internet constellation, sharpening a rivalry with SpaceX\u2019s Starlink satellite constellation. The Soyuz lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 2:42 a.m. Feb. 7 (1:42 p.m. PT Feb. 6) and successfully deployed the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[498,252,1277,20,442,1302],"class_list":["post-17805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-arianespace","tag-broadband","tag-oneweb","tag-satellite","tag-satellites","tag-soyuz"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17805"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}