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BirdDog
Assistant Professor
‎03-01-2019 11:34 AM
‎03-01-2019 11:34 AM

OneWeb off the ground

The first LEO satellites are off the ground. Time will tell how quickly service is available to the masses, looks like they're shooting at 2021 for full deployment.

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maratsade
Distinguished Professor IV
‎03-01-2019 11:45 AM
‎03-01-2019 11:45 AM

Interesting.  I hope they live up to the hype. 

 

@BirdDog wrote:

The first LEO satellites are off the ground. Time will tell how quickly service is available to the masses, looks like they're shooting at 2021 for full deployment.

 

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BirdDog
Assistant Professor
In response to maratsade
‎03-01-2019 12:02 PM
‎03-01-2019 12:02 PM

Curious what orbit altitude was finally agreed to. There was some back and forth on it as they want decay and burn up to happen fairly quickly when they are no longer in use.

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BirdDog
Assistant Professor
In response to BirdDog
‎03-01-2019 12:14 PM
‎03-01-2019 12:14 PM

Pretty cool vid of them deploying from the booster tree.

 

https://youtu.be/VgUbH02rju8

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maratsade
Distinguished Professor IV
In response to BirdDog
‎03-01-2019 12:19 PM
‎03-01-2019 12:19 PM

Agreed, very cool.   Fly, LEOs, fly! Be free!

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GabeU
Distinguished Professor IV
‎03-01-2019 07:59 PM
‎03-01-2019 07:59 PM

I saw a snippet about this last night on CNN.  To be honest, it surprises me.  With all of the back and forth and subsequent delays, I figured it would be at least another year before one of these LEO companies would actually start to get some birds in the air.  Well, other than test units, that is.

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