Oneweb will have far fewer user terminals since they're not serving individual households.
Quote from: M.E.T. on 03/10/2021 08:37 amHow 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? What's going on is that people keep treating Starlink and OneWeb like they're comparable systems. Mostly out of politeness, I think. Once ISL laser links are up, it's going to be like Verizon's network compared to a handful of CB radios.
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?
Quote from: Nomadd on 03/11/2021 05:04 pmQuote from: M.E.T. on 03/10/2021 08:37 amHow 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? What's going on is that people keep treating Starlink and OneWeb like they're comparable systems. Mostly out of politeness, I think. Once ISL laser links are up, it's going to be like Verizon's network compared to a handful of CB radios.This actually brings up something I had in the back of my mind for a while now. SDA/DARPA Black Jack and the transport layer sats will use interoperable ISL's. Is there a compelling business case to have some cross-constellation linkage/routing, where end-to-end doesn't need to touch the ground in between if both customers are satcomm customers, even if on different mega-constellations? Or is that still too hard now, operating a virtual peering point in space?
Since the last Soyuz launch of 36 OneWeb satellites, SpaceX has launched 370 Starlink satellites; another 60 may launch before this mission.
The company behind the launch is both funded and owned by the British taxpayer, after Boris Johnson authorised spending £400m rescuing this unknown company that was in bankruptcy proceedings in the US at the height of the pandemic.Sky News has assembled the complete story of the acquisition for the first time, starting a year ago when the company was in peril and involving doors of the most senior politicians opening throughout Whitehall at remarkable speed despite the grave doubts of civil servants.
OneWeb: Dominic Cummings and the £400m public bailout to rescue an imperilled satellite internet firmQuoteThe company behind the launch is both funded and owned by the British taxpayer, after Boris Johnson authorised spending £400m rescuing this unknown company that was in bankruptcy proceedings in the US at the height of the pandemic.Sky News has assembled the complete story of the acquisition for the first time, starting a year ago when the company was in peril and involving doors of the most senior politicians opening throughout Whitehall at remarkable speed despite the grave doubts of civil servants.
