https://ria.ru/20210222/raketa-1598525870.htmlGoogle translate:QuoteMOSCOW, February 22 - RIA Novosti. Two additional launches of Soyuz-2 carrier rockets in the interests of the British company OneWeb may take place from the Vostochny cosmodrome this year, two sources in the rocket and space industry told RIA Novosti.Earlier, another source of the agency in the industry said that in 2021, six or seven launches of Soyuz-2 missiles from Vostochny are planned. According to him, the commercial program foresees three launches of rockets with 36 British communication satellites OneWeb on board each, three or four launches are expected under the federal program: with the Meteor-M meteorological satellite, two Ionosphere-M scientific vehicles, the Luna-25 station and, possibly, the Kondor-FKA Earth observation radar satellite."At the request of the French company Arianespace (which provides commercial launch services using Soyuz-2 missiles - ed.), Two more Soyuz-2 launches with 36 OneWeb satellites in each may be included in the launch schedule," said one of the sources.Another source confirmed this information, adding that two more launches, planned for March 25, April 23 and May, in the interests of OneWeb, may be added - in June and July. "The June start is possible with a high degree of probability, and the July start is still in question," he said.
MOSCOW, February 22 - RIA Novosti. Two additional launches of Soyuz-2 carrier rockets in the interests of the British company OneWeb may take place from the Vostochny cosmodrome this year, two sources in the rocket and space industry told RIA Novosti.Earlier, another source of the agency in the industry said that in 2021, six or seven launches of Soyuz-2 missiles from Vostochny are planned. According to him, the commercial program foresees three launches of rockets with 36 British communication satellites OneWeb on board each, three or four launches are expected under the federal program: with the Meteor-M meteorological satellite, two Ionosphere-M scientific vehicles, the Luna-25 station and, possibly, the Kondor-FKA Earth observation radar satellite."At the request of the French company Arianespace (which provides commercial launch services using Soyuz-2 missiles - ed.), Two more Soyuz-2 launches with 36 OneWeb satellites in each may be included in the launch schedule," said one of the sources.Another source confirmed this information, adding that two more launches, planned for March 25, April 23 and May, in the interests of OneWeb, may be added - in June and July. "The June start is possible with a high degree of probability, and the July start is still in question," he said.
Great demos today in Florida of the @OneWeb. satellites performance >450Mbps and <30 ms latency. Impressive.https://twitter.com/M_Ladovaz/status/1367250688921784321
https://tass.ru/kosmos/10850401Google translate:QuoteMOSCOW, March 6. / TASS /. About 10 launches of the British communications satellites OneWeb on Soyuz rockets...are planned this year. This was announced on Saturday to TASS by the general director of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin."2021 - <snip>, about 10 OneWeb launches each with 36 spacecraft..."Rogozin said.
MOSCOW, March 6. / TASS /. About 10 launches of the British communications satellites OneWeb on Soyuz rockets...are planned this year. This was announced on Saturday to TASS by the general director of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin."2021 - <snip>, about 10 OneWeb launches each with 36 spacecraft..."Rogozin said.
Sunil Bharti Mittal, executive chairman of OneWeb, says the satellite company will be completely wholesale, reaching its market only through existing local partners. It will not have its own retail arm....OneWeb will launch in October 2021 with complete 24-hour coverage of everywhere between 50°N latitude and the North Pole, he confirms. That will blanket virtually all the British mainland: even the southernmost tip, the Lizard peninsula, is virtually on the fiftieth parallel....In October, the rest of the world — including all of India and Africa, where Mittal’s Bharti Group runs mobile services— will have only interrupted coverage, perhaps an hour or so at a time.But once all 648 OneWeb satellites are in service, by May or June 2022, coverage will be global. That’s the completion of what he calls “generation one” of the company’s fleet of satellites.
How are they achieving so much coverage and such speeds with so few satellites? I realise the higher altitude allows for larger areas to be covered per satellite, but 600 satellites vs 12000 satellites seems an excessive difference.Also, that means they need to cover more subscribers per satellite so how do they maintain the required bandwidth to support high speeds for so many more customers per “cell”? Are their satellites an order of magnitude more powerful / capable than the Starlink sats?What’s going on here?
