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French satellite operator Eutelsat invested $550,000,000 in OneWeb on 2021-04-27.
Eutelsat’s investment leaves OneWeb almost fully funded and the company is well advanced in securing its remaining funding needs in 2021.
Eutelsat selected Airbus to build Eutelsat 36D, a replacement satellite slated for launch in 2024.
Eutelsat planned to acquire Bigblu Broadband’s European business, which at the time included about 50,000 subscribers and operations in the United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Poland, Hungary, and Greece.
Eutelsat opted in 2018 to build its own Konnect Very High Throughput Satellite instead of investing in Viasat 3 coverage of Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.
Eutelsat competitors SES and ViaSat have reconfigurable satellites scheduled to launch in 2021.
Eutelsat helped form the C-Band Alliance with Intelsat, SES, and Telesat in 2018 and quit the group in 2019 after disagreeing with its members.
Eutelsat has a Konnect VHTS very high-throughput satellite planned for launch in 2022.
Eutelsat cancelled plans in April 2018 to invest in Viasat’s ViaSat-3 EMEA satellite.
Arianespace’s first launch of 2020 is an Ariane 5 carrying Eutelsat’s Konnect satellite and ISRO’s GSAT-30 geostationary communications spacecraft.
Eutelsat expects to launch Eutelsat-10B in 2022.
Eutelsat expects to launch Eutelsat-10B in 2022.
Eutelsat ordered a prototype nanosatellite from Tyvak International that is expected to launch early next year to test waveforms between the satellite and objects on the ground.
Loft Orbital will build two 8-kilogram payloads for Eutelsat and fly them on two 80-kilogram multi-customer condosats that Loft Orbital plans to launch in 2020.
Eutelsat ordered the Konnect VHTS half-terabit very-high-throughput satellite, which is scheduled to launch in 2021 and is planned to have the most powerful onboard digital processor ever put in orbit.
Eutelsat ordered the Konnect VHTS half-terabit very-high-throughput satellite, which is scheduled to launch in 2021 and is planned to have the most powerful onboard digital processor ever put in orbit.
Eutelsat plans to launch Konnect late in 2019 and to launch Konnect VHTS in the second half of 2021.
Eutelsat reported EBITDA of 1,000,000,000 EUR for the fiscal year ended 2019-06-30, down 4.3% from the prior year.
Eutelsat’s EBITDA reached a record 78.1% following the LEAP-1 cost-saving initiative.
Eutelsat’s EBITDA reached a record 78.1% following the LEAP-1 cost-saving initiative.