PARIS — Whether Internet goes better with Coke is anyone’s guess, but Coke is going with OneWeb.The giant soft drink maker is an equity investor in OneWeb LLC and one of the surprises of the June 25 OneWeb briefing on London.Coca-Cola was not there to explain its decision, but OneWeb founder Greg Wyler said the company has a program called Five by 20 that seeks to promote women’s employment in areas of the world where OneWeb will have connectivity.
Quote from: Star One on 06/26/2015 04:50 pmDoes this mean that Pepsi will be funding the SpaceX constellation in the future?
Sunil Bharti Mittal, chairman, Bharti Enterprises talks about his group’s involvement along with other global majors for offering affordable internet across the world through a satellite internet firm OneWeb. Edited excerpts:...Will Indian companies have some share in the launch?Arianespace and Virgin Galactic will be launching the satellites. However, I will be engaging with Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) so that they could also be part of it and do launches.
Interesting GIF from JPL ostensibly about FireSat.FireSat is discussing 200 satellites at 1200 km. That sounds like ~2/7 of the OneWeb constellation.Look at the GIF and see all the satellites converging on the pole.Then think there are more than three times the number of satellites shown and this is happening at both poles.
Not really. Iridium seems to do fine.
Quote from: Comga on 11/22/2015 04:45 amInteresting GIF from JPL ostensibly about FireSat.FireSat is discussing 200 satellites at 1200 km. That sounds like ~2/7 of the OneWeb constellation.Look at the GIF and see all the satellites converging on the pole.Then think there are more than three times the number of satellites shown and this is happening at both poles. I hate it when a real problem is misrepresented like this. What moron approved this gif? So the constellation is designed to detect wildfires at the north and south pole? A fire sat constellation would have an inclination well away from the poles.Similar a com sat constellation. They would go to different inclinations and even the relatively small number of com sats covering the poles would not go to a 90° inclination. A situation as shown in this gif is not something real. There is a risk and both Elon Musk and Wyler have said they will have deorbiting rules much stricter than presently called for by treaties to minimize that risk.
Quote from: guckyfan on 11/23/2015 05:12 amQuote from: Comga on 11/22/2015 04:45 amInteresting GIF from JPL ostensibly about FireSat.FireSat is discussing 200 satellites at 1200 km. That sounds like ~2/7 of the OneWeb constellation.Look at the GIF and see all the satellites converging on the pole.Then think there are more than three times the number of satellites shown and this is happening at both poles. I hate it when a real problem is misrepresented like this. What moron approved this gif? So the constellation is designed to detect wildfires at the north and south pole? A fire sat constellation would have an inclination well away from the poles.Similar a com sat constellation. They would go to different inclinations and even the relatively small number of com sats covering the poles would not go to a 90° inclination. A situation as shown in this gif is not something real. There is a risk and both Elon Musk and Wyler have said they will have deorbiting rules much stricter than presently called for by treaties to minimize that risk.Please remain civil.It is not mis-representedOneWeb is their only known chance to get 200 hosted payloads. (I don't know why they think this. but it is clearly stated.)OneWeb has chosen a uniform inclination of something like 89 degrees. (I don't know why but OneWeb is very specific about this.) And OneWeb is proposing 720 satellites, not a mere 200.(At least it's not 900+! ) And this thread is about OneWeb. FireSat discussions are in the Cubesat threads.And none of this makes much difference.Traffic control for OneWeb will be an immense challenge.
OneWeb has chosen a uniform inclination of something like 89 degrees. (I don't know why but OneWeb is very specific about this.) And OneWeb is proposing 720 satellites, not a mere 200.
Quote from: Comga on 11/23/2015 05:50 amOneWeb has chosen a uniform inclination of something like 89 degrees. (I don't know why but OneWeb is very specific about this.) And OneWeb is proposing 720 satellites, not a mere 200.Do you have a source for that inclination? It makes very little sense to me.
Space Florida is about to award a major new contract to build a new 120,000-square-foot spacecraft-assembly building at Kennedy Space Center. Although Space Florida would not confirm the tenant, among many possibilities, one of the most likely occupants is OneWeb, which did not return requests for comment.