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Airbus to build satellites for OneWeb to beam Internet

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CAPE CANAVERAL Jun 16, 2015 - 12:00 am GMT+3
Airbus Helicopters CEO Guillaume Faury speaks during the launch of the Airbus Helicopters X6 concept phase at the 51st International Paris Air Show.
Airbus Helicopters CEO Guillaume Faury speaks during the launch of the Airbus Helicopters X6 concept phase at the 51st International Paris Air Show.
by Jun 16, 2015 12:00 am

Project partly funded by Virgin aims to create a global communications network by launching the first of its orbiting fleet in 2018. It will cost between $1.5-$2 billion

Europe's Airbus Group will design and build about 900 satellites for privately owned OneWeb Ltd, which plans to offer high-speed, space-based Internet access to billions of people worldwide, company officials said on Monday.

About 700 of the satellites, each of which will weigh less than 330 pounds (150 kg), will be launched into orbit around Earth beginning in 2018. The rest will stay on the ground until replacements are needed, said OneWeb, based in Britain's Channel Islands.

Bankrolled in part by Richard Branson's London-based Virgin Group and chipmaker Qualcomm Inc, the project will cost between $1.5 billion and $2 billion, OneWeb founder and Chief Executive Officer Greg Wyler said.

Airbus Defense and Space will build the first 10 spacecraft at its Toulouse, France, facility, before shifting production to an undisclosed site in the United States, Airbus said. Several other companies were vying for the spacecraft contract, including Thales Alenia Space, Space Systems/Loral, Lockheed Martin Corp's Space Systems and OHB of Germany, the industry trade journal Aviation Week and Space Technology reported.

Some of OneWeb's satellites will be flown by Branson's space company, Virgin Galactic, which is developing a low-cost, small satellite launcher as well as a suborbital passenger spaceship.

Wyler declined to disclose how much Virgin and Qualcomm are investing in the project. As part of the deal, unveiled in January, Branson and Qualcomm Executive Chairman Paul Jacobs joined OneWeb's board of directors. Before starting OneWeb, Wyler co-founded satellite venture, O3b Networks, and briefly worked at Google Inc on another project to beam Internet access from space. Wyler left

Google in 2014 to work on his own satellite project, named WorldVu, which later became OneWeb. Google, along with Fidelity, has since made a $1 billion investment in another Internet-via-satellite project being developed by California-based Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX.
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