{"id":57159,"date":"2021-07-01T22:32:42","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T14:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/oneweb-ready-to-connect-northern-hemisphere-after-successful-arianespace-launch\/"},"modified":"2021-07-01T22:32:42","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T14:32:42","slug":"oneweb-ready-to-connect-northern-hemisphere-after-successful-arianespace-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/oneweb-ready-to-connect-northern-hemisphere-after-successful-arianespace-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"OneWeb Ready to Connect Northern Hemisphere After Successful Arianespace Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>London-based Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation operator <strong>OneWeb<\/strong> sent a critical batch of 36 new satellites into space early Thursday morning, following a successful launch on an <strong>Arianespace<\/strong> Soyuz rocket. The new batch brings OneWeb\u2019s total constellation to 254 satellites, which it says is enough to start offering commercial high-speed internet connectivity services to a large portion of the Northern Hemisphere.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the one that gives us connectivity from 50 degrees North latitude to the North Pole, and covers Northern Europe, the U.K., Greenland, Canada, Alaska, and Iceland,\u201d OneWeb CEO Neil Masterson told reporters following the launch.<\/p>\n<p>Arianespace launched OneWeb\u2019s eighth batch of satellites from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Siberia, at 8:48 a.m. EDT. This is Arianespace\u2019s 58th Soyuz mission conducted in coordination with its <strong>Starsem<\/strong> affiliate.<\/p>\n<p>Once fully launched, OneWeb\u2019s constellation will comprise 648 satellites. The operator plans to begin launching services&nbsp; over limited regions by the end of this year.<\/p>\n<p>The successful launch is especially good news for <strong>Bharti<\/strong><b> Global<\/b>, which just announced an investment of more than $500 million into<b>&nbsp;OneWeb<\/b>, making Bharti Global the largest shareholder of a now fully-funded company. The funding marks a recovery for OneWeb, which declared bankruptcy just 15 months ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOneWeb represents a unique opportunity for investors at a key moment in the commercialization of space,\u201d Sunil Bharti Mittal, now OneWeb\u2019s executive chairman, said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London-based Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation operator OneWeb sent a critical batch of 36 new satellites into space early Thursday morning, following a successful launch on an Arianespace Soyuz rocket. The new batch brings OneWeb\u2019s total constellation to 254 satellites, which it says is enough to start offering commercial high-speed internet connectivity services to a large [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57161,"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":[],"class_list":["post-57159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57159"}],"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=57159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}