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Eutelsat plans to launch Konnect late in 2019 and to launch Konnect VHTS in the second half of 2021.
Only Viasat, Eutelsat, Inmarsat, and Hughes have announced plans for geostationary satellites with higher amounts of capacity than 300 Gbps.
Eutelsat’s Konnect satellite is scheduled to launch on an Ariane 5 rocket from French Guiana in December 2019.
Eutelsat ordered a first IoT satellite from Torino, Italy-based Tyvak International that will launch in 2019.
Eutelsat has a Konnect VHTS satellite slated to launch in 2021 with half a terabit of Ka-band capacity.
Eutelsat has a 75-gigabit-per-second Ka-band satellite named Konnect built by Thales Alenia Space that is slated to launch on an Ariane 5 rocket at the end of the year.
Eutelsat divested Spanish fleet operator Hispasat for 302,000,000 EUR.
Eutelsat’s planned Konnect VHTS is targeted at 500 gigabits per second and is slated to start service in 2022.
Eutelsat and Hughes are building satellites with throughput capabilities similar to ViaSat-2.
Eutelsat signed a contract with Arianespace on 2018-09-10 to launch five satellites on the Ariane 6 rocket by 2027.
Eutelsat publicly announced booking a Proton Medium launch as part of a 2016 multi-launch agreement with ILS.
Eutelsat generated 16,000,000 EUR from television broadcasts with Eutelsat-25B/Es’hail-1 in the company’s most recent fiscal year.
Eutelsat will launch its African broadband service using 10 Gbps of capacity on Yahsat’s Al Yah 3 satellite.
Eutelsat will begin rolling out service across 19 Sub-Saharan African countries using capacity on the all-Ka-band Al Yah 3 through internet service providers.
Eutelsat operates the world’s third-largest geostationary satellite fleet with approximately 38 satellites.
Eutelsat received a discount from Airbus for being the first Eurostar NEO customer and will have its own engineering team working with Airbus to manage schedule risk.
Eutelsat launched Eutelsat-172b last year with C-band coverage of the Asia-Pacific region.
On 2018-06-25, Eutelsat confirmed it is evaluating a possible offer to acquire Inmarsat.