OneWeb successfully tests airplane wi-fi using its satellites
Capitalism in space: During an eleven hour test flight, OneWeb has successfully tested the use of its satellite constellation to provide wi-fi service during long international flights.
Flight tests will continue throughout the rest of this year, with certification of the Sidewinder terminal expected in mid-2023. OneWeb expects to launch its new service in the middle of next year. It has so far launched about two-thirds of its 648-strong constellation of satellites.
This puts the OneWeb and SpaceX’s Starlink constellation in direct competition, since both will be offering this service directly to airlines. Thus, for both the airlines and their customers, this competition will likely not only lower price, it will improve service.
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Capitalism in space: During an eleven hour test flight, OneWeb has successfully tested the use of its satellite constellation to provide wi-fi service during long international flights.
Flight tests will continue throughout the rest of this year, with certification of the Sidewinder terminal expected in mid-2023. OneWeb expects to launch its new service in the middle of next year. It has so far launched about two-thirds of its 648-strong constellation of satellites.
This puts the OneWeb and SpaceX’s Starlink constellation in direct competition, since both will be offering this service directly to airlines. Thus, for both the airlines and their customers, this competition will likely not only lower price, it will improve service.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
I read an article the other day that one of those tv satellite companies is complaining to the FCC (Or one of those Federal departments with letters for a name) that Starlink does not have a permit to allow people to receive its signal in a moving vehicle. And that they know people are driving down the road in their campers and getting the internet and they should police this. I guess they can go after one web now too unless they don’t have control of vehicles over 10,000 feet. I am not sure why the tv company would care, but I assume somewhere it is about dollars and cents. Ah, here it is. Read for you self as I am a fast and poor reader and may have gotten something wrong.
https://www.pcmag.com/news/dish-demands-spacex-deactivate-starlink-dishes-used-on-moving-boats-and
Dish Network’s last cries. Vessels are using Starlink, I am sure they get away with it since most of those cruiseline vessels are under a foreign flag.
“Sidewinder” may not have been the best choice for a terminal mounted in an airplane.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIM-9_Sidewinder
Andi,
Yes, that is true, but I am willing to bet you a Coke that the programmers probably never heard of that and named it after that awful movie “Snakes on a Plane”.