Africa-Press – Sierra-Leone. Elon Musk’s SpaceX has put 40 satellites of its rival in the sphere of space-based internet communications, OneWeb, into orbit, the company said on Thursday.
“Mission success! We are delighted to report we have made contact with all 40 satellites from #OneWebLaunch15,” OneWeb tweeted. According to OneWeb, with this latest launch, the company has now almost 80% of its planned low Earth orbit (LEO) constellation deployed.
In March, OneWeb suspended all future launches from the Russian-leased cosmodrome in Kazakhstan after Moscow demanded that the company provide guarantees for non-military use of the satellites and asked that the UK government sell its stake in the enterprise. The OneWeb satellites are designed to build a space-based communications system providing broadband internet access to any location across the globe.
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