Ovzon-3

Ovzon ordered the Ovzon-3 satellite from Space Systems Loral in December and expects the satellite to have a mass of around 1,000 kg.

Maxar is applying the Legion platform to Ovzon-3, a geostationary communications satellite for Swedish broadband company Ovzon.

Ovzon will operate Ovzon-3 from its Network Operations Center.

Maxar is building Ovzon-3 on a Legion-class bus.

Ovzon-3 includes a reprogrammable onboard processor that acts as a mesh network to enable remote satellite terminals to operate independently of a teleport.

Planned remaining launches in 2023 included the Space Force X-37B mission, additional Starlink missions, SARah launches, and the Ovzon-3 communications satellite.

On September 7, 2022, Ariane 5 ECA+ mission VA258 launched Eutelsat Konnect VHTS and Ovzon-3 from Kourou ELA-3.

Pacific Dataport is the third company in five months to purchase a small geostationary telecom satellite, following GapSat of Hong Kong with GapSat-1 from Terran Orbital in September and Ovzon with Ovzon-3 from SSL in December.

Pacific Dataport is the third company in five months to purchase a small geostationary telecom satellite, following GapSat of Hong Kong with GapSat-1 from Terran Orbital in September and Ovzon with Ovzon-3 from SSL in December.

Ovzon contracted SSL to build Ovzon-3 using the SSL500 small-satellite platform.

SpaceX has a contract to launch Ovzon-3 on a Falcon Heavy rocket in 2021 with a direct injection into geostationary orbit.

Ovzon used its financing to finalize a manufacturing agreement with Maxar Technologies in July 2019 to build Ovzon-3 using a Legion-class satellite platform formerly called the SSL-500.

Intelsat has a $56,000,000 agreement with Ovzon to use capacity on Ovzon-3 following its launch.

SpaceX’s contract to launch the Astranis satellite followed SpaceX losing a 2021 mission to launch the 1,500-kilogram Ovzon-3 satellite on Falcon Heavy.

Maxar won a selection from Sweden’s Ovzon in December to build the Ovzon-3 small geostationary satellite based on Maxar’s Legion-class satellite platform.

Ovzon signed an agreement with Arianespace in 2019 to launch the satellite called Ovzon-3 in the fourth quarter of 2021 on an Ariane 5 rocket.

Ovzon’s four-year lease of capacity on Intelsat-37 and Intelsat-39 provides additional capacity while Ovzon awaits the launch of its first satellite, Ovzon-3, in 2021 on an Ariane 5 rocket.

Ovzon is negotiating with other launch providers in addition to Arianespace to secure a 2022 launch for Ovzon-3.

This will be the 22nd and final flight for the Falcon 9 first stage booster supporting the SpainSat NG II mission, which previously launched CRS-26, OneWeb Launch 16, Intelsat IS-40e, SES O3b mPOWER-C, Ovzon-3, Eutelsat 26D, Turksat 6A, Maxar 2, SXM-9, and 12 Starlink missions.