2026-10-16 22:24 UTC
@Ruth_Mottram@fediscience.org The answer, as I read it, is „not yet, not soon”. We use Eutelsat, and we use Starlink for business, so OneWeb looked like a good alternative for the latter, but when we asked a couple of years ago, they only had like a few dozen satellites in orbit, so the constellation was nowhere near functional. From what I’ve read between the lines, (so - my conjecture here) Eutelsat acquired the business in a pretty dire financial condition, which additionally slowed things down. This might have accelerated now, sure, but still there’s no talking about commercial availability, just government and emergency services - I guess that says a lot about the bandwidth currently available. Also, the terminals would not be interchangeable with Starlink.
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