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OneWeb, trading as Eutelsat OneWeb, is the low-Earth-orbit broadband constellation of Eutelsat Group, with its first-generation satellites in 12 near-polar orbital planes about 1,200 km above Earth. The live globe draws every object CelesTrak names ONEWEB in its active catalogue, including the JoeySat demonstrator and a few satellites far below the working orbit. Where OneWeb service can be bought is a separate question from where the satellites are, so coverage is set out in words further down this page, with the operator's own pages to check.

Also called Eutelsat OneWeb, OneWeb LEO Constellation, Constellation OneWeb LEO d'Eutelsat, ONEWEB

As of 14 September 2026, OneWeb is Eutelsat Group's low-Earth-orbit broadband constellation for business and government users, with no launch since 20 October 2024 and the first satellites of a 440-satellite replacement order from Airbus expected, according to Eutelsat, to be delivered in the fourth quarter of 2026.

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OneWeb (Eutelsat OneWeb) is a low-Earth-orbit broadband constellation owned by the Paris-based Eutelsat Group and sold to businesses and governments through distribution partners. CelesTrak's active catalogue lists 651 OneWeb satellites, and on 10 September 2026 the independent tracker Jonathan McDowell counted 636 in the operational orbit of 12 near-polar planes at about 1,200 km. Full global coverage is Eutelsat's target for the end of 2026. On 14 September 2026 the coverage map on Eutelsat's website was titled Eutelsat GEO Coverage Map, and the only OneWeb coverage map azmth found from Eutelsat was a static 'LEO coverage (2026)' layer in its March 2026 investor presentation.

651

in CelesTrak's active catalogue now

as of 28 October 2026

636

OneWeb satellites in the operational orbit, counted by the independent tracker Jonathan McDowell

as of 10 September 2026 · source

440

replacement satellites on firm order from Airbus, with deliveries targeted from the end of 2026

as of 12 January 2026 · source

What OneWeb is

OneWeb is a satellite broadband constellation in low Earth orbit, operated since 28 September 2023 as Eutelsat OneWeb, a London-based subsidiary of the Paris-headquartered Eutelsat Group. Its first-generation satellites, built by Airbus, fly in 12 synchronised near-polar orbital planes about 1,200 km above Earth, and each orbit takes about 109 minutes. The first six were launched on 27 February 2019, and Eutelsat sells the network's capacity to business and government customers through distribution partners in its key markets.

OneWeb filed for Chapter 11 restructuring in the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York on 27 March 2020. By then 74 satellites had been launched, and the company blamed market turbulence caused by COVID-19 for derailing its talks with investors. On 3 July 2020 the UK government announced that it and Bharti Global had won the bid for OneWeb with $500 million each, giving the UK a final say over any future sale of the company and over other countries' access to its technology on national-security grounds. On 20 November 2020 the government confirmed it had secured OneWeb, and said commercial service to the UK and the Arctic would begin in late 2021 and expand worldwide in 2022.

OneWeb's board voted on 3 March 2022 to suspend all OneWeb launches from Baikonur, and the UK government backed the decision. Ahead of a launch of 36 satellites planned there for 4 March 2022, Roscosmos had demanded that the UK government give up its stake in OneWeb and that OneWeb guarantee the satellites would have no military use. By then Arianespace had flown 13 Soyuz missions for OneWeb from Kourou, Baikonur and Vostochny since 2019, placing 428 satellites in orbit. Eutelsat's registration document says six launches planned from Baikonur were postponed indefinitely, which delayed global coverage and forced OneWeb to find other launch providers. SDxCentral reported in March 2023 that the 36 satellites remained in Russia and that chief executive Neil Masterson did not expect to get them back soon.

OneWeb resumed launches on 22 October 2022 with NewSpace India Limited (NSIL), the commercial arm of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), and first flew with SpaceX on 8 December 2022. OneWeb had signed with SpaceX on 21 March 2022, when 428 satellites were in orbit, about two thirds of the 648 first-generation satellites then planned. Two LVM3 launches from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre carried 36 satellites each on 22 October 2022 and 26 March 2023, and three Falcon 9 launches from Cape Canaveral carried 40 each on 8 December 2022, 10 January 2023 and 9 March 2023. According to Via Satellite, the launch of 26 March 2023 brought the number in orbit to 618, more than the 588 active satellites OneWeb needed for global coverage, with the rest kept for resilience. A Falcon 9 from Vandenberg on 20 May 2023 carried 15 more production satellites and JoeySat, a beam-hopping demonstrator for OneWeb's next generation developed under the European Space Agency's Sunrise partnership with UK Space Agency support. The most recent OneWeb launch as of 14 September 2026, a Falcon 9 from Vandenberg on 20 October 2024, carried 20 spare first-generation satellites, which Eutelsat raised into Planes 12, 11 and 10 and had brought into service by July 2025.

OneWeb has belonged to Eutelsat since 28 September 2023, when Eutelsat completed an all-share combination after its shareholders approved the deal. When the merger was announced on 26 July 2022, the UK government said it would keep its special share and its rights over OneWeb, covering national security and security standards, the UK as the preferred location for future OneWeb launches and a preference for UK businesses in manufacturing procurement, and that OneWeb's headquarters would remain in the UK. In 2025 Eutelsat raised about €1.5 billion in two stages: reserved capital increases of €828 million at €4.00 a share, completed on 21 November 2025, and a rights issue of about €670 million at €1.35 a share, settled on 16 December 2025. The French state invested €749.3 million across the two stages and became Eutelsat's largest shareholder, and UK Government Investments says the UK's €163 million kept its 10.9 per cent stake and its seat on the Eutelsat board. Eutelsat's low-Earth-orbit revenues were €297 million in the year to 30 June 2026, up 69.5 per cent and about a quarter of group revenues.

Counts of OneWeb satellites differ because each source counts something different. On 14 September 2026 CelesTrak's satellite catalogue listed 656 OneWeb satellites launched and 654 still in orbit, two having re-entered in 2022, and flagged 648 as operational, 3 as partially operational and 3 as non-operational; CelesTrak's active catalogue, which supplies the live figure on this page (651), includes the operational and partially operational ones. Eutelsat's 2024-25 registration document, published in October 2025, placed 644 satellites in its 12 service planes, from 50 to 61 per plane, with the others failed, de-orbited, demonstrators or still raising their orbits, and its half-year report for July to December 2025 described a constellation of 647. The independent tracker Jonathan McDowell counted 651 working and 636 in the operational orbit on 10 September 2026, with 10 more in reserve or relocating. Calculated from CelesTrak's element sets on 14 September 2026, most OneWeb satellites are inclined at about 87.9 degrees and fly between about 1,162 and 1,225 km, but ONEWEB-0050 is at about 596 km, ONEWEB-0618 at about 524 km and ONEWEB-0179 in an eccentric orbit between about 453 and 947 km.

OneWeb's oldest satellites are reaching the end of their working lives, according to Eutelsat's half-year report, and Airbus is building replacements. Airbus announced contracts from Eutelsat for 100 satellites on 17 December 2024 and 340 more on 12 January 2026, to be built in Toulouse, with deliveries targeted from the end of 2026. On 10 February 2026 the French Treasury, through Bpifrance Assurance Export, granted €975 million of export credit financing for the 340, conditional on Eutelsat's next bond refinancing succeeding. Eutelsat said in October 2025 that the 440 satellites, once deployed, would keep the service running until 2030, and on 10 September 2026 it said the first of them were expected to be delivered in the next quarter. The same day Eutelsat announced plans to procure 229 more for an estimated €1 billion, for replenishment and expansion through 2034, having signed only an authorisation to proceed covering initial industrial work. Two dedicated Ariane 64 launches from French Guiana, for 2027 and 2028, were also announced that day, adding to a multi-launch agreement signed with MaiaSpace on 16 January 2026 for launches from 2027. As of 14 September 2026 no replacement satellite had launched, and azmth found no announced date, rocket or launch site for the first of them.

Eutelsat describes the OneWeb replacement satellites as a bridge between the end of the first generation and IRIS², the European Union's planned sovereign connectivity constellation. The implementation agreement of 7 August 2026 sets IRIS² at 348 satellites, 330 in low Earth orbit (including 66 added for defence and security) and 18 in medium Earth orbit, with first launches in 2029, according to the European Commission. Eutelsat, confirmed that day as lead of the low-Earth-orbit segment, is responsible for 264 dual Mil-Ka and Ku-band satellites and 66 Mil-Ka satellites, expects its commercial Ku-band constellation to be operational by mid-2032, and says IRIS² will give it access to more than twice OneWeb's current capacity. Its half-year report says continued investment in OneWeb until IRIS² starts is essential to keeping its priority rights with the International Telecommunication Union.

How to find them on the globe

CelesTrak names every OneWeb satellite ONEWEB followed by a hyphen and a four-digit, zero-padded serial, and on 14 September 2026 its active catalogue ran from ONEWEB-0006 to ONEWEB-0721 with no other OneWeb name form. The serials are not continuous, since they run to 0721 although 656 satellites have launched, and ONEWEB-0721 is JoeySat, the beam-hopping demonstrator for OneWeb's next generation launched on 20 May 2023, which Jonathan McDowell's catalogue lists as OneWeb SL0721 JoeySat, so the demonstrator is included in the live count.

Coverage and service

As of 14 September 2026, Eutelsat's target for OneWeb is full global coverage by the end of calendar 2026, a date given in its October 2025 registration document, and azmth found no announcement that the target had been reached. OneWeb announced on 1 July 2021 that its 254 satellites were enough to cover everything north of 50 degrees north, including the UK, Canada, Alaska, northern Europe, Greenland and the Arctic, and it then expected global coverage in June 2022; Eutelsat later gave the end of 2023 and, after that, the end of 2026. Smart Maritime Network reported in May 2024, without naming a source, that China, Iran, North Korea and Russia were restricted areas, and Inc42 reported on 2 September 2026, citing the Economic Times, that OneWeb had no commercial service in India while it waited for security clearance and spectrum. The globe on this page shows where OneWeb satellites are, and where service can be bought is a separate question. On 14 September 2026 the coverage map in the menu of Eutelsat's website, at eutelsat.com/map, was titled Eutelsat GEO Coverage Map, and the OneWeb LEO Partner Portal at my.oneweb.net required a login. The only OneWeb coverage map azmth found from Eutelsat was a static world map in its March 2026 investor presentation, with a layer labelled 'LEO coverage (2026)' and no country-by-country detail, so availability in a given country is best checked with Eutelsat or one of its distribution partners. Eutelsat sells OneWeb to business and government customers through distribution partners in its key markets, and its March 2026 investor presentation gives the network 1.1 Tbps of sellable capacity, availability above 99 per cent and latency below 70 ms. Customers and partners named in Eutelsat's filings include Intelsat, Inmarsat Maritime, Telstra in Australia, Chunghwa Telecom in Taiwan and NSSLGlobal, which delivers a July 2025 contract for the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.

What we know

Operator: Eutelsat OneWeb, a subsidiary of Eutelsat Group with its centre of operations in London; the group is headquartered in Paris as of 28 September 2023 · eutelsat.com
Eutelsat's shareholders: French state 29.65%, Bharti Space 17.88%, UK government 10.89%, CMA CGM 7.46%, FSP 4.99%, others 29.13% as of March 2026 · eutelsat.com
Orbit (operator): 12 synchronised orbital planes at 1,200 km as of 14 September 2026 · eutelsat.com
Orbit (catalogue): Inclined about 87.9 degrees, with the working shell at about 1,162 to 1,225 km in 12 planes about 15 degrees apart (azmth's calculation from CelesTrak element sets) as of 14 September 2026 · celestrak.org
Orbital period: About 109 minutes as of 14 September 2026 · celestrak.org
Satellite design: About 150 kg, built by Airbus through the OneWeb Satellites joint venture (wholly owned by Airbus since January 2024), with Ku-band user links, Ka-band gateway links and a service life of at least five years as of 14 September 2026 · eoportal.org
Launches: 20 between 27 February 2019 and 20 October 2024: 13 Soyuz (Arianespace), 2 LVM3 (NSIL and ISRO) and 5 Falcon 9 (SpaceX) as of 30 October 2025 · eutelsat.com
Launched and in orbit (catalogue): 656 launched and 654 in orbit, with 648 flagged operational, 3 partially operational and 3 non-operational as of 14 September 2026 · celestrak.org
In service planes (operator): 644 across the 12 service planes, from 50 to 61 per plane, plus 3 failed, 2 de-orbited, 2 demonstrators and 5 raising their orbits as of 30 October 2025 · eutelsat.com
Independent tracking: 651 working and 636 in the operational orbit, counted by Jonathan McDowell as of 10 September 2026 · planet4589.org
Most recent launch: 20 October 2024: 20 spare first-generation satellites on a Falcon 9 from Vandenberg, with no OneWeb launch since as of 14 September 2026 as of 14 September 2026 · planet4589.org
Capacity and performance: 1.1 Tbps of sellable capacity, network availability above 99% and latency below 70 ms, according to Eutelsat as of March 2026 · eutelsat.com
How it is sold: To business and government customers through distribution partners in each of Eutelsat's key markets as of 30 October 2025 · eutelsat.com
LEO revenues: €297 million in the year to 30 June 2026, up 69.5% and about 25% of Eutelsat's revenues as of 7 August 2026 · eutelsat.com
Replacement satellites: 440 on firm order from Airbus (100 in December 2024 and 340 in January 2026), and 229 more planned under an authorisation to proceed, a plan announced on 10 September 2026 as of 10 September 2026 · eutelsat.com
Replacement launches booked: Two dedicated Ariane 64 launches from French Guiana, planned for 2027 and 2028, plus a MaiaSpace multi-launch agreement for launches from 2027 (targets) as of 11 September 2026 · news.europawire.eu
Coverage target: Full global coverage by the end of calendar 2026 (a target) as of 30 October 2025 · eutelsat.com
Coverage map on eutelsat.com: eutelsat.com/map is titled Eutelsat GEO Coverage Map; the OneWeb LEO Partner Portal at my.oneweb.net requires a login as of 14 September 2026 · eutelsat.com
OneWeb coverage map (operator): A static world map in Eutelsat's investor presentation, with a layer labelled 'LEO coverage (2026)' and no country-by-country detail as of March 2026 · eutelsat.com

Timeline

27 February 2019
The first six OneWeb satellites launched on an Arianespace Soyuz from the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou. eutelsat.com
27 March 2020
OneWeb filed for Chapter 11 restructuring in New York, with 74 satellites launched, citing the economic impact of COVID-19. prnewswire.com
3 July 2020
The UK government announced that it and Bharti Global had won the bid for OneWeb with $500 million each. gov.uk
20 November 2020
The UK government confirmed it had secured OneWeb alongside Bharti Global. gov.uk
1 July 2021
OneWeb announced its 'Five to 50' mission complete, with 254 satellites in orbit after its eighth launch, enough to cover everything north of 50 degrees north. newswire.ca
3 March 2022
OneWeb's board voted to suspend all launches from Baikonur after Roscosmos made demands ahead of a planned launch of 36 satellites. spacepolicyonline.com
21 March 2022
OneWeb signed a launch agreement with SpaceX, with 428 satellites in orbit. spaceflightnow.com
26 July 2022
OneWeb's merger with Eutelsat was announced, and the UK government said it would keep its special share and rights over OneWeb. gov.uk
22 October 2022
Launches resumed: an ISRO LVM3 carried 36 OneWeb satellites from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre. eutelsat.com
8 December 2022
The first OneWeb launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 carried 40 satellites from Cape Canaveral. eutelsat.com
26 March 2023
A second LVM3 launch of 36 brought the number in orbit to 618, more than the 588 active satellites needed for global coverage. satellitetoday.com
20 May 2023
A Falcon 9 from Vandenberg launched OneWeb satellites together with JoeySat, a beam-hopping demonstrator for the next generation. esa.int
28 September 2023
Eutelsat completed its all-share combination with OneWeb, which began trading as Eutelsat OneWeb. eutelsat.com
20 October 2024
A Falcon 9 from Vandenberg carried 20 spare first-generation satellites, the most recent OneWeb launch as of 14 September 2026. eutelsat.com
17 December 2024
Airbus announced a Eutelsat contract for a first batch of 100 OneWeb satellites, to be built in Toulouse. airbus.com
18 June 2025
Eutelsat and France's Armed Forces Ministry signed a framework agreement worth up to €1 billion over up to 10 years, for priority access to capacity notably through the LEO constellation. eutelsat.com
July 2025
Eutelsat finished bringing into service the 20 satellites launched in October 2024. eutelsat.com
21 November 2025
Eutelsat completed reserved capital increases of €828 million at €4.00 a share. eutelsat.com
12 December 2025
France's Economy Ministry said the state had invested €749.3 million and, with 29.65 per cent, was Eutelsat's largest shareholder. presse.economie.gouv.fr
12 January 2026
Airbus announced a contract for 340 more OneWeb satellites, bringing the order to 440. airbus.com
16 January 2026
Eutelsat signed a multi-launch agreement with MaiaSpace for LEO satellite launches starting in 2027. mynewsdesk.com
10 February 2026
The French Treasury, through Bpifrance Assurance Export, granted €975 million of export credit financing for the 340 additional satellites, conditional on Eutelsat's next bond refinancing succeeding. eutelsat.com
7 August 2026
Eutelsat was confirmed as lead of the low-Earth-orbit segment of the EU's IRIS² constellation. eutelsat.com
10 September 2026
Eutelsat announced plans to procure 229 more OneWeb satellites from Airbus, having signed an authorisation to proceed. eutelsat.com
10 September 2026
Eutelsat announced two dedicated Ariane 64 launches for OneWeb satellites, planned for 2027 and 2028. satellitetoday.com

Commonly got wrong

(1) Rounded or differently defined totals are often quoted as the number of OneWeb satellites. Eutelsat's website and Airbus's January 2026 release say 'over 600', Eutelsat's March 2026 investor presentation says '650+', and the reseller Ground Control's OneWeb coverage map page still shows 648 satellites, with figures dated as of 8 August 2023. The live count on this page, 651, is the number of ONEWEB objects in CelesTrak's active catalogue. Jonathan McDowell's count of 651 working satellites on 10 September 2026 is a different set of satellites even where the totals match: CelesTrak's satellite catalogue marks ONEWEB-0022, ONEWEB-0041 and ONEWEB-0455 as non-operational, while McDowell keeps ONEWEB-0022 in the operational shell and lists ONEWEB-0618 as screened, ONEWEB-0179 as undergoing disposal and ONEWEB-0050 as special.
(2) Not every object named ONEWEB is a first-generation satellite in the working shell. ONEWEB-0721 is JoeySat, the next-generation beam-hopping demonstrator launched on 20 May 2023, which Jonathan McDowell's catalogue names OneWeb SL0721 JoeySat. Calculated from CelesTrak's element sets on 14 September 2026, ONEWEB-0050 (about 596 km), ONEWEB-0618 (about 524 km) and ONEWEB-0179 (an eccentric orbit between about 453 and 947 km) sit far below the 1,200 km shell but still appear in the active catalogue. The serial numbers run to 0721 although 656 satellites have launched, according to CelesTrak, and azmth could not confirm why numbers are missing.
(3) Searches for a OneWeb coverage map tend to end at maps of something else, and the date for global coverage has moved several times. The coverage map in the menu of Eutelsat's website is titled Eutelsat GEO Coverage Map and the OneWeb LEO Partner Portal at my.oneweb.net requires a login (both checked on 14 September 2026), while the reseller Ground Control's OneWeb coverage map page carries figures dated 8 August 2023. OneWeb said in July 2021 that global coverage would come in June 2022, Eutelsat said in September 2023 that the network was set to be globally operational by the end of 2023, and its October 2025 registration document expected coverage to be fully achieved by the end of calendar 2026, yet Eutelsat's OneWeb web page already says the network brings internet to every corner of the planet.
(4) Eutelsat's latest satellite plans are sometimes reported as firmer than they are. Eutelsat's release of 10 September 2026 is headlined as procuring 229 more OneWeb satellites from Airbus, and Reuters (via Boursorama) described it as an order, but the release says Eutelsat plans to procure them and has signed only an authorisation to proceed covering initial industrial work; the 440 announced by Airbus in December 2024 and January 2026 are firm orders. Reuters also recalled chief executive Jean-François Fallacher saying in March 2026 that the fleet would pass 1,000 satellites very soon, which is an aspiration: no replacement satellite had launched by 14 September 2026.

Sources

Checked on 14 September 2026. Sources in French were read in their own language and translated for this page; where official statements and independent tracking disagree, both are given. The live count above comes from the catalogue, not from this research.

Frequently asked

How many OneWeb satellites are there?

CelesTrak's active catalogue lists 651 OneWeb satellites, counting those flagged operational or partially operational. CelesTrak's satellite catalogue shows 656 OneWeb satellites launched on 20 launches between 27 February 2019 and 20 October 2024, of which 654 were still in orbit on 14 September 2026. Eutelsat's October 2025 registration document placed 644 in its 12 service planes, and the independent tracker Jonathan McDowell counted 636 in the operational orbit on 10 September 2026. Eutelsat has 440 replacement satellites on order from Airbus, none of which had launched by 14 September 2026.

Is there a OneWeb coverage map for 2026?

Eutelsat, which runs OneWeb, had no interactive public OneWeb coverage map that azmth could find on 14 September 2026. The coverage map on Eutelsat's website, at eutelsat.com/map, is titled Eutelsat GEO Coverage Map, and the OneWeb LEO Partner Portal at my.oneweb.net requires a login. Eutelsat's March 2026 investor presentation includes a static world map with a layer labelled 'LEO coverage (2026)' but no country-by-country detail, and the reseller Ground Control's OneWeb coverage map carries figures dated 8 August 2023. The azmth globe shows where OneWeb satellites are, so OneWeb availability in a particular country is best checked with Eutelsat or a OneWeb distribution partner.

Does OneWeb cover the whole world?

Eutelsat's target is full global OneWeb coverage by the end of 2026, a date given in its October 2025 registration document, and azmth found no announcement by 14 September 2026 that it had been reached. OneWeb announced on 1 July 2021 that it had enough satellites to cover everything north of 50 degrees north, including the UK, Canada, Alaska and the Arctic. Smart Maritime Network reported in May 2024, without naming a source, that China, Iran, North Korea and Russia were restricted areas, and Inc42 reported on 2 September 2026 that OneWeb still had no commercial service in India while it waited for security clearance and spectrum.

How high do OneWeb satellites orbit?

OneWeb satellites orbit about 1,200 km above Earth, according to Eutelsat, in 12 near-polar orbital planes, and each orbit takes about 109 minutes. CelesTrak's element sets for 14 September 2026 put the working shell at about 1,162 to 1,225 km with an inclination of about 87.9 degrees, and a few catalogued OneWeb objects sit far lower, such as ONEWEB-0618 at about 524 km.

Who owns OneWeb?

OneWeb has been owned by the Paris-headquartered Eutelsat Group since 28 September 2023 and trades as Eutelsat OneWeb, with its centre of operations in London. After a capital raise of about €1.5 billion that settled in December 2025, Eutelsat's largest shareholders are the French state (29.65 per cent), Bharti Space (17.88 per cent) and the UK government (10.89 per cent), according to Eutelsat's March 2026 investor presentation. When the merger was announced in July 2022, the UK government said it would keep a special share in OneWeb with rights over national security.

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