SpaceX's Starlink Has Competition—and SpaceX Is Launching It on Tuesday
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- Jun 17, 2024
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Finding alternatives to the Soyuz rocket wasn’t easy, forcing OneWeb to turn to SpaceX, it’s biggest rival. The company signed contracts with SpaceX, and also India’s space agency, for the six remaining launches required for its first generation satellites. The first of these launches, with the help of the Indian Space Research Organization’s (ISRO) GSLV Mark III rocket, took place in October
.Both SpaceX and OneWeb are building internet satellite constellations in low Earth orbit to deliver connectivity across the world, with SpaceX way ahead of its competition
. It definitely helps that the company can use its own rockets to launch Starlink satellites to orbit, an enviable position as far as other satellite companies are concerned. That said, OneWeb has already managed to send 464 internet satellites to low Earth orbit, out of an expected 648.
OneWeb even joked about its newly established frenemy status with SpaceX on Twitter, showing a video of the company finally following SpaceX on the platform. Throughout all its adversities in the past year, the British company has persisted and still manages to have a sense of humor about it.
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