{"id":73928,"date":"2015-06-16T00:02:34","date_gmt":"2015-06-15T16:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/oneweb-picks-airbus-defence-and-space-to-build-900-satellites\/"},"modified":"2015-06-16T00:02:34","modified_gmt":"2015-06-15T16:02:34","slug":"oneweb-picks-airbus-defence-and-space-to-build-900-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/oneweb-picks-airbus-defence-and-space-to-build-900-satellites\/","title":{"rendered":"OneWeb Picks Airbus Defence and Space to Build 900 Satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 06-15-2015] <b>OneWeb<\/b> has selected <b>Airbus Defence and Space <\/b>to be its industrial partner for a constellation of 900 microsatellites to deliver global broadband. Each satellite will have a mass of less than 150 kilograms, with first launches into Low Earth Orbit (LEO) beginning in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Airbus Defence and Space will build the first 10 satellites at its Toulouse, France facilities. Full series production will take place at a dedicated plant located in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTeaming with OneWeb with a requirement to produce several small satellites each day has inspired us to develop innovative designs and processes that will dramatically lower the cost in large volumes for high performance space applications,\u201d said Fran\u00e7ois Auque, head of space systems at Airbus Defence and Space. \u201cWithout doubt, this program is challenging but we\u2019re ready for it because we have leveraged resources and expertise across the entire Airbus Group.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 06-15-2015] OneWeb has selected Airbus Defence and Space to be its industrial partner for a constellation of 900 microsatellites to deliver global broadband. Each satellite will have a mass of less than 150 kilograms, with first launches into Low Earth Orbit (LEO) beginning in 2018. Airbus Defence and Space will build the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70884,"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-73928","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\/73928"}],"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=73928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}