{"id":72094,"date":"2016-01-27T22:53:05","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T14:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/oneweb-and-airbus-defence-and-space-form-oneweb-satellites-joint-venture\/"},"modified":"2016-01-27T22:53:05","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T14:53:05","slug":"oneweb-and-airbus-defence-and-space-form-oneweb-satellites-joint-venture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/oneweb-and-airbus-defence-and-space-form-oneweb-satellites-joint-venture\/","title":{"rendered":"OneWeb and Airbus Defence and Space form OneWeb Satellites Joint Venture"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 01-27-2016] <b>OneWeb<\/b> and <b>Airbus Defence and Space<\/b>, in preparation for OneWeb\u2019s constellation of 648 small telecommunications satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), have created a joint venture named <b>OneWeb Satellites <\/b>to handle spacecraft manufacturing. OneWeb Satellites is equally owned between both companies, and will design and build 900 satellites for OneWeb to provide global high-speed Internet from space. Brian Holz will be CEO of the joint venture.<\/p>\n<p>OneWeb&nbsp;Satellites will undertake design activities for the entire satellite fleet and the manufacture of the first 10&nbsp;flight models will take place in France, with mass production of the operational satellites planned for North America. Each satellite will have a mass of less than 150&nbsp;kilograms. <b>Arianespace<\/b> and <b>Virgin Galactic <\/b>are the launch providers for the satellites, starting from 2018. The spacecraft will reach their orbital positions using electrical propulsion.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, OneWeb Satellites will be able to build satellites, platforms and equipment for other operators. Airbus Defence and Space will have rights to market these products.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 01-27-2016] OneWeb and Airbus Defence and Space, in preparation for OneWeb\u2019s constellation of 648 small telecommunications satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), have created a joint venture named OneWeb Satellites to handle spacecraft manufacturing. OneWeb Satellites is equally owned between both companies, and will design and build 900 satellites for OneWeb to provide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61497,"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-72094","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\/72094"}],"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=72094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}