The operator of the global satellite network OneWeb managed to attract more than $ 1 billion investment

Yesterday it became known that the British company OneWeb received $ 1.25 billion investment. This was stated by the company itself, which calls itself the operator of the global satellite network. Investors include SoftBank, Qualcomm, Grupo Salinas holding and the government of Rwanda.

According to representatives of OneWeb, investment has increased the likelihood of a successful project. Thus, the funds received make the launch of broadband Internet in 2021 "inevitable", as reported by Vedomosti. The total amount of investments attracted for all the time of operation is $ 3.4 billion.

OneWeb investors include Airbus Group, Bharti, Coca-Cola, Hughes, Virgin Group Richard Branson.
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The company plans to create an orbital constellation of several hundred satellites. After the network is deployed, it will provide all the inhabitants of the Earth with high-speed access to the global network. True, it will not happen before 2027.

And all this is not just plans, OneWeb is gradually realizing what has been planned. For example, back in 2015, a contract was signed for launching Soyuz missiles with OneWeb satellites. The price of the issue is about a billion US dollars.

Roscosmos is cooperating with the British company, which began to launch OneWeb satellites despite the dissatisfaction with the FSB project.

The fact that the FSB considers the OneWeb project a threat to national security became known on October 24. Then the service representative stated that there are no guarantees “that the satellite communications system is not of intelligence nature and cannot harm the interests of the individual and society of the Russian Federation”. Also, the FSB said that the only way "to counter the threats arising from the deployment of foreign satellite communications systems to provide Internet access <...> is to limit their use in the Russian Federation."

The first six satellites from several hundred are already launched. It happened at the end of February, the launch was made from the Kourou cosmodrome in French Guiana. A Russian-made Soyuz-ST-B launch vehicle launched them into orbit. OneWeb announced that it plans to launch about 30 satellites per month.