SpaceX Rocket Launches with Rival Satellite Payload Written 9 December 2022
SpaceX launches the OneWeb 1 mission to low-Earth orbit from Launch Complex 39A on Thursday, December 8 at 5:27 p.m. ET. | Credit: SpaceX; YouTube
Bloomberg reports that SpaceX “successfully launched 40 satellites for competing communications company OneWeb on Thursday.” It’s the first of three “planned missions the unlikely collaborators are set to perform over the coming months despite their separate efforts to build megaconstellations that will beam broadband Internet coverage to Earth.”
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OneWeb 1 Mission, December 8, 2022
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