{"id":62988,"date":"2019-02-20T00:53:34","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T16:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/esa-funds-oneweb-constellation\/"},"modified":"2019-02-20T00:53:34","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T16:53:34","slug":"esa-funds-oneweb-constellation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/esa-funds-oneweb-constellation\/","title":{"rendered":"ESA Funds OneWeb Constellation"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>European Space Agency<\/strong> (ESA) awarded <strong>OneWeb<\/strong>&nbsp;$20.4 million (18 million euros) of <strong>U.K. Space Agency<\/strong> funding to aid in the development of its next generation satellite constellation. The constellation will be comprised&nbsp;of approximately 650 satellites initially, and scale to more than 900 satellites over time<\/p>\n<p>The news comes as the first batch of 10 satellites of the OneWeb constellation are due to be launched on an <strong>Arianespace<\/strong> Soyuz rocket from Europe\u2019s Spaceport in French Guiana on Feb 26.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProviding access to people everywhere has been the mission and vision of OneWeb since the very beginning,\u201d said OneWeb Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Adrian Steckel. \u201cWe will be able to realize this vision in part because of important partnerships like this one with the U.K. Space Agency, ESA, and a range of other important partners including our European and Canadian partners. Thanks to this support, we will focus together on next generation technologies that will be game changers for realizing global 5G connectivity\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Space Agency (ESA) awarded OneWeb&nbsp;$20.4 million (18 million euros) of U.K. Space Agency funding to aid in the development of its next generation satellite constellation. The constellation will be comprised&nbsp;of approximately 650 satellites initially, and scale to more than 900 satellites over time The news comes as the first batch of 10 satellites [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55408,"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-62988","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\/62988"}],"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=62988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}