MDA Space announced today it has received a contract from Airbus to design and manufacture over 1,320 antennas for the OneWeb low Earth orbit (LEO) constellation extension. A financial value for the contract was not disclosed.
The order comprises more than 880 Ka-band steerable antennas and 440 Ku-band user replacement antennas. Manufacturing, assembly, and testing will take place at MDA’s high-volume satellite production facility in Montreal. The completed units will then be integrated into Arrow telecommunications satellites manufactured by Airbus.
The agreement follows an initial 2016 contract in which MDA supplied thousands of antenna subsystems for the first generation of the OneWeb constellation. MDA previously received a performance award from OneWeb for that deployment, demonstrating the company’s capability to scale high-volume manufacturing for LEO mega-constellations.
“The selection of MDA Space for this repeat order underscores our company’s reputation as a reliable partner in enabling advanced satellite communications and connectivity around the world,” said Mike Greenley, CEO of MDA Space. “With the growth of satellite constellations continuing to accelerate, MDA Space is ideally positioned to meet full constellation life cycles from the initiation to expansion to the replacement of satellites, antennas and subsystems.”
The OneWeb constellation is currently owned and operated by Eutelsat. This new antenna order supports constellation extension contracts that Eutelsat awarded to Airbus in December 2024 and December 2025 for 100 and 340 satellites, respectively.
This latest agreement secures MDA Space’s ongoing role in the OneWeb supply chain, continuing its work with Airbus as Eutelsat transitions the constellation into its extension and replenishment phase.