OneWeb has the potential to do a lot of good around the world: UK PM

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson will meet OneWeb chairman Sunil Mittal throughout his present India go to, whilst he stated the worldwide satellite tv for pc operator – co-owned by India’s Bharti Group and the UK authorities – had mounted latest issues attributable to Russia’s determination to cease the corporate from launching satellites from Kazakhstan amidst the struggle in Ukraine.

“We’re making a giant breakthrough on OneWeb…there was an issue attributable to the Russians deciding that they (OneWeb) could not launch any extra from Kazakhstan…(however) we have mounted it, and OneWeb has the potential to do plenty of good all over the world,” Johnson advised journalists on a aircraft to Gujarat on Thursday.

He added that he “can be assembly Mittal,” who can also be chairman of India’s Bharti group.

OneWeb is establishing a worldwide constellation of 648-odd LEO satellites to ship high-speed, low-latency satellite tv for pc broadband providers in rural and distant areas globally, together with in India.

Final month, it had inked the same contract with Elon Musk’s SpaceX to renew satellite tv for pc launches amid geopolitical tensions arising from the continuing Russia-Ukraine struggle. OneWeb lately bagged an important GMPCS (international cell private communications by satellite tv for pc providers) allow from DoT, paving the way in which to launch web from area providers in India later this yr. However it expects the India launch to get delayed past the Might 2022 timeline as a consequence of challenges introduced on by the continuing Russia-Ukraine battle.