SpaceX In Trouble? Why Did The Satellite Company Turn To Its Rival Arianespace?

It has been previously reported that Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX, will launch thousands of satellites to space. However, the company is now facing some problems after the recent explosion of one of its rockets. Now, the satellite company that supposes to have a contract with SpaceX transferred to the rival Arianespace.

Previously, SpaceX asks permission from the government to try what could someday be an Internet breakthrough. An enormous network of satellites will produce high-speed Internet service to Earth.

According to the sent proposal, if granted, the satellites will be orbiting 700 miles up. It then could provide an Internet speed of as fast as 1 gigabit per second for each person. To sum up, it is as much a high-speed Internet that the premium Internet providers in every household. The company will launch the first 800 satellites if approved.

In the technical attachment of the company's proposal, it stated that, "The system is designed to provide a wide range of broadband and communications services for residential, commercial, institutional, governmental and professional users worldwide. Once fully deployed, the SpaceX System will pass over virtually all parts of the Earth's surface and therefore, in principle, have the ability to provide ubiquitous global service," according to BBC.

Now, SpaceX is facing a problem as the recent report shows that Inmarsat, a British satellite company, switches to using the Arianespace, which is a rival of SpaceX to launch a new satellite that will provide broadband connection to air passengers. The reports flew on Tuesday, as per Fortune.

The S-band satellite was supposed to be scheduled to launch with the technology giant billionaire Elon Musk and his company SpaceX. Yet, Inmarsat said the setbacks of SpaceX scheduled launch cause them to switch to Arianespace instead.

Inmarsat mentioned on Thursday that Arianespace is set to launch the S-Band satellite in the middle of 2017. SpaceX was forced to delay the December rocket launches until January 2017 because of the investigations continue.

However, SpaceX has not yet released any statements with regard to the Inmarsat switching to its rival. Thus, Inmarsat said that it still planned to launch a different satellite, the Inmarsat-5 F4, with SpaceX during the first-half of 2017, adding that it looked forward to working with SpaceX in the future, according to Reuters.