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The next step, he said, is a design-to-manufacture period to be followed by production of the first 10 pilot satellites, to be built at Airbus Defence and Space's production facility here.
The 10 pilots will be launched aboard a Europeanized Russian Soyuz rocket in late 2017 and then tested in orbit before full-scale production of the remaining 890 satellites is committed. [Satellite Quiz: How Well Do You Know What's Orbiting Earth?]
One year after the program's formal kickoff following OneWeb's securing $500 million in funding from prospective partners and suppliers — ncluding Airbus — de Santignon said the basic OneWeb satellite design and performance requirements have been confirmed, with no major issues so far.