Updated: Apr 23 2021, 08:14 AM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Pocket SpaceX's competitor, OneWeb, finally released its Innovation Challenge 2021 on Apr. 23. The independent space agency's latest program focuses on acquiring different ideas from various people, agencies, and companies. OneWeb explained that it will use the gathered information to improve its internet satellites. In this handout image provided by the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA, the International Space Station and the docked space shuttle Endeavour orbit Earth during Endeavour's final sortie on May 23, 2011 in Space. Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli captured the first-ever images of an orbiter docked to the International Space Station from the viewpoint of a departing vessel as he returned to Earth in a Soyuz capsule. Photo by Paolo Nespoli - ESA/NASA via Getty Images "Space is the future for communications on Earth," said Massimilian Ladovaz, the CTO of OneWeb. He added that OneWeb is currently working on its roadmap, which would allow the space agency to redefine new innovations, ideas, and partnership opportunities. "Our space sector is thriving, and this exciting new competition by OneWeb will help it to grow even further by drawing on the best that British industry and the next generation of researchers have to offer," added Amanda Solloway, the U.K. government's Science Minister. OneWeb's Innovation Challenge 2021 OneWeb's press release stated that the space company's latest Innovation Challenge 2021 aims to harness ideas from academic students, professors, as well as engineering partners, and various research professionals. In this handout image provided by NASA, the Soyuz rocket with Expedition 33/34 crew members Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy, Flight Engineer Kevin Ford of NASA, and Flight Engineer Evgeny Tarelkin of ROSCOSMOS onboard the TMA-06M spacecraft launches to the International Space Station October 23, 2012 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Launch of the Soyuz rocket will send Ford, Novitskiy and Tarelkin on a five-month mission aboard the International Space Station. Photo by Bill Ingalls/NASA via Getty Images