Tag: Greg Wyler

  • OneWeb to break ground on Florida factory, merge with Intelsat

    —

    by

    starpathwp-production
    in

    Artist’s concept of the OneWeb factory at Exploration Park, Florida. Credit: OneWeb Days before breaking ground on a new spacecraft assembly line near Cape Canaveral, OneWeb and Intelsat announced a proposed merger Tuesday that would couple a planned fleet of 900 broadband Internet satellites with a high-power communications network in geostationary orbit. The “share-to-share” merger,…

  • Florida factory to mass-produce satellites at record pace

    —

    by

    starpathwp-production
    in

    Artist’s concept of the OneWeb factory at Exploration Park, Florida. Credit: OneWeb OneWeb officials Tuesday unveiled plans for a factory just outside the gates of NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida that will churn out up to 15 satellites per week to populate low Earth orbit and beam broadband Internet signals worldwide. Repurposing aircraft assembly…