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by Thervicarl 1566 days ago
Not a competitor, a former partner.

Early in the OneWeb project Greg Wyler was coming with his O3B background and positioning himself as the mastermind for the constellation aspects (satellite production and operation) with Elon Musk and SpaceX handling the launches.

Then Elon started questioning Greg Wyler decisions (which turned out to be a correct assessment) and OneWeb went its own way with Arianespace assuming SpaceX would never invest seriously and catch-up for the design and mass production of satellites. History has proven them wrong.

For Arianespace, no idea. It will probably keep a number of lawyers busy for the coming years.

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To my understanding, Greg Wyler isn't involved anymore in OneWeb. He is working on E-space which is a cloud in orbit service (or something like that).