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Eutelsat 5 West B launched on 2021-10-09 on an International Launch Services Proton rocket.
Eutelsat 5 West A generated around 30,000,000 EUR in revenue in the prior year and is mainly used to broadcast television channels to Europe and Northern Africa.
Broadcast accounted for 62% of Eutelsat’s total revenue and 2019-12-01.7% year-over-year in the July–2021-09-01 quarter.
Eutelsat-10B is planned to launch in 2022 and will include capacity for in-flight Wi-Fi with Gogo as an early customer.
Eutelsat Communications announced the LEAP-2 program in July 2021.
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.
Thales Alenia Space will build Eutelsat-10B on the Spacebus NEO platform developed with the French and European space agencies.
Eutelsat expects the aging Eutelsat-10A satellite to retire in the second quarter of 2023.
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 Communications selected Franco-Italian manufacturer Thales Alenia Space to build a replacement for a geostationary satellite that is roughly three years from retiring.
Eutelsat’s ELO smallsat and hosted payload constellation will use existing ground stations and not the same ground segment hardware as the geostationary IoT service.
Kepler Communications of Toronto operates LEO cubesats that use Ku-band frequencies similar to Eutelsat IoT First.
Eutelsat Communications of Paris is starting a connectivity service for Internet of Things devices using its geostationary satellite fleet.
Eutelsat plans to begin launching a low-Earth-orbit constellation of 25 smallsats and hosted payloads next year to support its Eutelsat LEO for Objects (ELO) program.
Eutelsat is considering expanding the Eutelsat IoT First service to sub-Saharan Africa and the Asia-Pacific, with expansions into the Asia-Pacific potentially requiring additional teleport infrastructure.
On 2019-10-24, Eutelsat Communications identified that an Eutelsat satellite launched two weeks earlier is experiencing an issue with one of its two solar arrays.
Eutelsat is investigating the impact of the power problem on Eutelsat 5 West B, a Northrop Grumman-built spacecraft intended to replace the 17-year-old Eutelsat 5 West A over Europe and Northern Africa.
International Launch Services’ Proton mission that carried MEV-1 and Eutelsat 5 West B was previously planned for 2019-09-30 but was delayed due to an issue identified during electrical testing of the rocket’s upper stage control system.
Eutelsat-5 West B has a mass of 2,860 kg and uses a Northrop Grumman GEOStar-2 platform with an all Ku-band payload from Airbus Defence and Space.