October 2020 Worldwide Satellite Magazine
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Worldwide Satellite Magazine SatMagazineSatMagazine October 2020 SATELLITE ELEVATE YOUR VIRTUAL EXPECTATIONS! INNOVATION A Full Agenda, Providing Deep Insights into the Satellite Business Domain One-on-One Video Chat with Conference Attendees, Exhibitors, Sponsors and Speakers Connect With Experts Through Mutual Common Interests Meetings Find Industry Experts in Sessions, Exhibitions And Through Interest Group Search Build Your Event Calendar With Integrated Scheduling & Meeting Invitation Functions SATINNOVATION.COM October 6th-8th 2020 Experience Matters Ask us about Q- and V-band! 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Cowen-Hirsch, Inmarsat Kevin Corbley Tore Morten Olsen Donald McGee, Production Manager Ken Peterman, Viasat Chris Forrester Brian Rider Andy Bernard, Sales Director Giles Peeters, Track24 Defence Chris Formeller Bob Stanton Teresa Sanderson, Operations Director Koen Willems, ST Engineering Newtec Simon Gwozdz Dana Turse Sean Payne, Business Development Director Dan Makinster, Technical Advisor Features Advertiser Index The Forrester Report: OneWeb—One Step Forward… But… . .6 Advantech Wireless Technologies, Inc. .9 by Chris Forrester, Senior Contributor APSCC Asia-Pacific Satellite Communications Council . .69 Executive Spotlight: Mike Carey, Founder + CEO, ATLAS Space Operations .14 Arabsat Satellite . .67 The Future Is SATCOM As A Service . .14 AvL Technologies . .13 by Brad Bode, ATLAS Space Operations Bechmark Space Systems . .Cover Selecting The Correct 5G Spectrum . .22 C-COM Satellite Systems Inc. .19 by HU Hai, AsiaSat Comtech EF Data . .15 Solar Empowerment — The Super Power Of Smallsats . .30 CPI Satcom Products . .3 by Dana Turse, Roccor Mission Microwave Technologies, LLC . .23 New Space—The Rapidly Evolving Ground Segment . .34 ND SatCom Products GmbH . .7 Kratos Constellation conversation with Pacôme Révillon, Euroconsult NORSAT International Inc. .27 Phishing Penetration Test Measures Crew Vigilance . .38 RF Design . .11 by Mike McNally, GTMaritime RUAG Space . .25 Raising The Smallsat Bar . .40 Russian Satellite Communications Company (RSCC) . .43 by Kevin Corbley Satellite Innovation 2020 Virtual . .2 The Tech Behind Satellite Internet . .44 SpaceBridge . .5 by Alex Miller, Viasat STN Ltd. (Satellite Telecommunications Network) . .33 A Rocket From Singapore . .46 Terrasat Communications Inc. .37 by Simon Gwozdz, Equatorial Space XMW Inc. .17 Market Forces Driving New Approaches To Satellite Lines . .48 by Brian Rider, LeoStella Microwave Weather Observation From Space . .50 Conversation with Gregory Porter, Weather Stream, Ltd. 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Huge Challenges Lay Ahead By Chris Forrester, Senior Contributor Would-be mega constellation operator OneWeb Global, OneWeb claims they will commence commercial broadband notwithstanding the firm’s bankruptcy position, has stated they will operations by the close of 2021, with a debut service covering the UK, re-start populating their satellite constellation this December with Alaska, Northern Europe, Greenland, Iceland, the Arctic seas an Arianespace-organized launch of a Soyuz rocket that will lift 34 and Canada. to 36 LEO satellites to orbit. OneWeb stated, “This amended agreement [with Arianespace], which remains subject to confirmation and consummation of OneWeb’s OneWeb stated they have restructured their core agreement with restructuring plan, is an important milestone for OneWeb as it plans to Arianespace and that the new schedule puts the firm’s business back emerge from the Chapter 11, with HM Government and Bharti Global on track to complete the full constellation by the end of 2022. as the prevailing bidders in OneWeb’s bankruptcy sale process. It OneWeb stated the company expects to emerge from bankruptcy confirms that the company will be well-placed to offer enterprise-grade with its new owners, the UK government and India’s Bharti Global, connectivity services for communities, businesses, and governments in during Q4 this year. a short timeframe.” SatMagazine Page 6 October 2020 Send and receive where other systems have already given up. 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Each launch will carry 34 to 36 OneWeb between Virgin and OneWeb. satellites and the full OneWeb constellation should be in orbit by the OneWeb is in a 50/50 joint-venture with Airbus to build its satellites end of 2022. at a factory in Florida. The new Arianespace agreement calls for 16 The new launch manifest will see Arianespace carry out 16 launches rocket launches, each one carrying 34 to 36 satellites at a time. This on their Europeanized Soyuz rockets. This means that two Soyuz December’s launch will increase the overall OneWeb fleet size to 110 launches have been cancelled and also that OneWeb is no longer the satellites on-orbit. debut customer on the all-new Ariane 6 rocket. OneWeb has also provided a list of the existing contracts and leases Arianespace’s Soyuz vehicle has already successfully placed three that it wishes to ‘reject’ during its bankruptcy process. The court will batches of OneWeb satellites into orbit; however, the bankruptcy make the final decision regarding such ‘rejections’ and those affected brought all plans to a halt. The original scheme expected one Soyuz have until September 28 to lodge protests. The bankruptcy court will rocket launch to happen every month throughout 2021, building up to hear arguments on October 2. a fleet of some 650 satellites. The list of the proposed rejected contracts is long and includes Just 74 craft are currently on-orbit. Arianespace stated the launch Airbus Defence & Space, EchoStar as well as Hughes Network Systems, manifest will kick back in during December of this year with 36 satellites a Will-i-Am business (I.am.equity), Intelsat, Kymeta Corporation, on board. Qualcomm, Coca-Cola, Virgin Atlantic and Virgin Orbit, Deloitte, The current plan will see two Soyuz launches managed at KPMG, Qualcomm and many others, including SoftBank. Arianespace’s usual Kourou, French Guiana, launch site. Other Soyuz Some OneWeb staffers and former employees are also affected. launches will happen from either Baikonur or Russia’s new launch facility Greg Wyler via his Nevada-based 1110 Ventures LLC company and who at Vostochny in Russia’s Far East. founded the company, as well as Brian Holz, who worked for a time at OneWeb and who will lose a share purchase agreement signed in 2017. Both names are in the ‘rejected’ list. SatMagazine Page 8 October 2020 However, the position of the UK government in the OneWeb rescue and restructuring is far from clear. It would seem that Airbus is far from enthusiastic about relocating out of Florida. Moreover, there are comments that the UK plans to use the OneWeb fleet as a substitute Galileo or GPS scheme, which has also created some major doubts.