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Eutelsat said Flexsat would be capable of providing more than 100 gigabits per second of incremental capacity over the Americas targeting enterprise, government, aviation, and maritime customers.
On 2022-12-01, Eutelsat ordered a geostationary broadband satellite to support multi-orbit services in the Americas from 2026.
Eutelsat intends Flexsat to act as a flexible, modular complement to the connectivity layer provided from LEO for customers in the Americas.
Thales Alenia Space is designing the Flexsat flexible satellite to accommodate the low Earth orbit network that Eutelsat stands to gain by merging with OneWeb.
Eutelsat states that a spacecraft positioned in GEO does not provide LEO-like services.
SpaceX used a Falcon 9 expendable rocket to launch EUTELSAT 10B.
EUTELSAT KONNECT VHTS was launched in September 2022.
Eutelsat has operated the 10° East orbital location since 1987.
The Falcon 9 first stage booster that supported the Eutelsat 10B mission previously supported the launches of Telstar 18 VANTAGE, Iridium-8, and multiple Starlink missions.
Eutelsat 10A is due to reach the end of its operational life at the end of 2023.
Eutelsat 10B carries two C- and Ku-band payloads to replace TV broadcast services provided by Eutelsat 10A at 10 degrees East.
SpaceX launched the Eutelsat 10B satellite on 2022-11-22 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.
The Eutelsat 10B mission was delayed from 2022-11-21 to allow SpaceX additional pre-flight checkouts.
Arianespace launched the Konnect VHTS satellite for Eutelsat in September to provide 500 gigabits per second of Ka-band throughput to European markets.
On 2022-11-15, Eutelsat’s board approved multi-orbit plans to combine with British broadband venture OneWeb, subject to shareholder and regulatory approvals.
OneWeb’s main shareholders Bharti, SoftBank, Hanwha, and the British government signed a final combination agreement with Eutelsat on 2022-11-14.
Publicly listed Eutelsat’s shareholders must approve the merger at a meeting the operator expects to hold in the second or third quarter of 2023.
Eutelsat’s board approved the deal after obtaining the opinions of employee representatives on combining Eutelsat’s geostationary fleet with OneWeb’s low Earth orbit constellation.
NXT Communications announced plans in 2020 to test its multi-orbit flat panel with a Eutelsat satellite after opening a production facility in Cherokee County, Georgia.
Eutelsat signed a contract in February 2021 worth 100,000,000 EUR to host the EGNOS GEO-4 payload in orbit for 15 years.