Thales Alenia Space is building both geostationary satellites Konnect VHTS and Eutelsat 10B for Eutelsat.
Gogo announced an agreement to use capacity on the upcoming Eutelsat-10B satellite after it launches in 2022.
Panasonic Avionics plans to use Ku-band capacity on Eutelsat-10B over Europe, the Middle East, and Africa following its launch in 2022.
Panasonic Avionics signed a contract with Eutelsat to use capacity on the upcoming Eutelsat-10B satellite.
Eutelsat-10B is planned to launch in 2022 and will include capacity for in-flight Wi-Fi with Gogo as an early customer.
Thales Alenia Space will build Eutelsat-10B on the Spacebus NEO platform developed with the French and European space agencies.
Eutelsat-10B’s design provides continued coverage of Europe, the Middle East, and Africa plus two high-throughput payloads covering (1) air and sea routes from the North Atlantic to the Middle East and (2) the Indian Ocean, Africa, and a larger part of the Atlantic Ocean.
Eutelsat expects to launch Eutelsat-10B in 2022.
Eutelsat and Thales Alenia Space signed a letter of agreement on 2019-10-29 for the production of Eutelsat-10B.
Eutelsat-10B will carry 14 kilowatts of power to support the Ku-band high-throughput payloads and will also carry traditional C- and Ku-band widebeam capacity.
Satellites that require frequencies outside Ku- and Ka-band, such as Eutelsat-10B, must use a different platform than Inspire to support those frequencies.