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Цитата:| Напомните мне, в каком году OneWeb начал реально искать поставщика пусковых услуг. |
Ну вот:
Цитата:| n March 2015, OneWeb indicated that they intended to select a launch service provider by mid-2015 and in June 2015 announced that Arianespace was contracted to provide 21 multi-satellite launches on Soyuz beginning in 2017 with Virgin Galactic under contract to provide 39 single-satellite launches using its LauncherOne smallsat launch vehicle. |
Святой тогда еще не летал, либо у него было хуже чем у не летающих на тот момент LauncherOne?
Цитата: Virgin Galactic Signs Contract With OneWeb To Perform 39 Satellite Launches
LONG BEACH, Calif. – June 25, 2015 – Virgin Galactic, the privately-funded space company owned by Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Group and Abu Dhabi’s Aabar Investments PJS, has signed a contract with OneWeb Ltd. to serve as one of its inaugural satellite launch providers. Under the terms of the Launch Services Agreement, Virgin Galactic’s LauncherOne rocket will perform 39 satellite launches for OneWeb—one of the largest commercial procurements of launches in history. Beyond the firm contract, the agreement provides OneWeb with options for 100 additional launches. |
И этот LauncherOne, который сейчас уже как бы рабочий, их уже запускает?
Да нет:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LauncherOne
И вот смотрите - очень большой договор на несуществующей ракеты!
Цитата:| In 2015, OneWeb announced a deal to purchase 39 satellite launches on Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne booster, with an option for 100 more flights. It was a very large order for a launch vehicle that didn’t exist yet. |
Потом еще оказывается и дорого:
Цитата: OneWeb disputes Virgin Orbit lawsuit, says LauncherOne is too expensive
WASHINGTON — Megaconstellation startup OneWeb asked a court to dismiss a June lawsuit by Virgin Orbit, claiming that it doesn’t accurately portray a 2015 launch contract.
Virgin Orbit, whose LauncherOne small launch vehicle is nearing a maiden flight, sued OneWeb for cancelling in June 2018 all but four of 39 launches it had purchased.
Virgin Orbit asserted that OneWeb owed $46.32 million of a $70 million termination fee.
OneWeb, in an Aug. 5 filing to the District Court of the Southern District of New York, said Virgin Orbit overlooked a 2017 contract amendment allowing earlier launch payments to apply to the fee.
OneWeb said it already paid Virgin Orbit more than $66 million, of which only $18 million went towards launches that are still expected to happen.
“Virgin has received more than $48 million for future launch services that Virgin will no longer need to provide,” OneWeb said.
In its court filing, OneWeb said the $6 million price tag for a LauncherOne mission is two to three times current market prices.
OneWeb told the court that Virgin Orbit’s assessment it would make between $234 million and $832 million conducting launches for OneWeb overstates the value of the contract.
The original contract, OneWeb claims, allowed for termination without cause, and for prior payments to apply to the termination fee. Those contract termination rules, and the fact that Virgin Orbit has yet to conduct any LauncherOne missions, invalidate Virgin Orbit’s revenue expectations, according to OneWeb.
Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne is designed to launch 300 kilograms to a 500-kilometer orbit — enough to potentially carry two OneWeb satellites, depending on the weight of adaptors and supporting equipment.
European launch provider Arianespace launched the first six OneWeb satellites on a Soyuz rocket in February. OneWeb said Aug. 7 it succeeded in bringing its Ku- and Ka-band spectrum into use per International Telecommunication Union rules with those satellites, ensuring spectrum access for the larger constellation.
The majority of OneWeb’s initial 648-satellite constellation is projected to launch on Soyuz rockets 34 to 36 at a time. OneWeb has in the past described Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne as playing a support role while Arianespace Soyuz rockets complete the bulk of its constellation deployment. |
Итоги:
Взяли дешевое и "хорошее", которое "хорошее" даже не существовало.
От "хорошего" потом отказались ибо дорого, собственник "хорошего" как бы их засудил.
Поэтому выход, типа у святого не работало совсем не получается.
Так как LauncherOne не работал ну совсем полностью и никак.
Остается - либо дорого у него, либо конкурент, вместе взятые. |
