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Mass Manufacturing & Small Sats
- What Does this Mean for Increasing Access to Space?
- The One Web example
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An Overview of OneWeb
 OneWeb constellation
 Will deliver affordable Internet access globally
 LEO constellation, requiring 900 satellites
 150 kg satellites, user link in Ku-band
 Near-polar 1,200-kilometer orbit
 Planned for launch early 2018
 Industrial organisation
 Design (DTC) and Production Heritage (DFM)
 Airbus DS JV to oversee design and production
 High volume satellite production
 First 10 satellites from Airbus DS Toulouse
 Full series production in the U.S.A.
 OneWeb in charge of ground, launch and service
July 2016
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How is OneWeb growing the industry?
July 2016
Platform cost and cycle time
- Commodity platform for quick and economic space access
- Rapid system verification and roll out of services
Design and Production revolution
- Partnership based on heritage and challenge
- Supply chain challenge
- Rapid prototyping
- Quick development of mass production techniques
- Development of the generic ‘cobotic’ factory
- Feedback into classical satellite SCM and AIT
- Importance of System design
Flight infrastructure
- Launch vehicles for 1 plane or 1 satellite
- Constellation control, including Situational Awareness
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Evolution of the Satellite factory
July 2016
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James Hinds