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Eutelsat OneWeb (legally Network Access Associates Ltd.) is a subsidiary of Eutelsat Group providing broadband satellite Internet services in low Earth orbit (LEO). [4] [6] The company is headquartered in London, and has offices in Virginia, US [7] and a satellite manufacturing facility in Florida – Airbus OneWeb Satellites – that is a joint venture with Airbus Defence and Space.
A year after the start of fielding the first satellite internet constellation—Starlink which began launching in late 2019 and began beta test of the network in late 2020; OneWeb began satellite deployment in 1H2020—the competitive disruption to established satellite company business models began to be better understood.
OneWeb alone raised $1.7 billion by February 2017 for the project, [7] and SpaceX raised over one billion in the first half of 2019 for their service called Starlink. [8] They expected more than $30 billion in revenue by 2025 from its satellite constellation. [9] [10] Starlink, as of February 2024, has 5,402 operational satellites in orbit. [11]
In comparison, Starlink charges $90 to $120 per month for residential service, with a $599 equipment fee. For businesses, it charges $250 to $1,500 a month with a $2,500 equipment fee.
Amazon’s Project Kuiper aims to put more than 3,000 satellites in orbit to compete with SpaceX’s Starlink service.
Starlink accounts for more than half of the 10,560 active satellites as of November 15, according to tracking by the Harvard astronomer Jonathan McDowell. SpaceX has filed for permission to fly ...
The Kuiper internet network is set to compete against billionaire Elon Musk's Starlink, the world's largest satellite operator, to offer broadband internet service globally to consumers, companies ...
Kuiper Systems LLC, also known as Project Kuiper, is a subsidiary of Amazon that was established in 2019 to deploy a large satellite internet constellation to provide low-latency broadband connectivity. [2] [3] The name Kuiper was a company codename for the project inspired by the Kuiper belt.