40 Satellites Launched By Elon Musk's SpaceX Deployed By OneWeb

40 satellites launched by Elon Musk's SpaceX using a Falcon 9 rocket from the United States' Kennedy Space Center were successfully deployed, according to OneWeb on Friday.

The company is on schedule to provide global coverage in 2023 with this launch, which will be OneWeb's 15th overall and the second since resuming its campaign in October with a successful launch from India.

Neil Masterson, Chief Executive Officer of OneWeb, said," "We are thankful for the support of other leaders in the space industry allowing us to quickly restart our launch campaign and we are delighted to work with SpaceX today for our first-ever launch from Florida, the home where our satellites are manufactured,"

In order to provide internet connectivity to unserved and underserved rural and remote communities and businesses, OneWeb already has connectivity solutions operational in Alaska, Canada, the UK, Greenland, and the wider Arctic area.

OneWeb's first-generation constellation has nearly 80 percent of its satellites in orbit, with just three more launches needed to provide global coverage.

The company will now be able to significantly expand service and provide connection solutions in the near future to regions like the US, southern Europe and North Africa, northern India, the Middle East, Japan, southern Australia, South Africa, and parts of South America.

A communications company called OneWeb seeks to develop high-speed satellite Internet services. OneWeb Satellites, a joint venture between the company and Airbus Defence and Space, is a satellite manufacturing facility in Florida as well as having headquarters in Virginia and London.