{"id":47484,"date":"2026-03-02T21:33:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T13:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/open-cosmos-names-connectedcosmos-its-new-leo-constellation-for-europe\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T21:33:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T13:33:31","slug":"open-cosmos-names-connectedcosmos-its-new-leo-constellation-for-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/open-cosmos-names-connectedcosmos-its-new-leo-constellation-for-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Cosmos Names ConnectedCosmos, its New LEO Constellation for Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Pan-European connectivity provider <strong>Open Cosmos <\/strong>announced ConnectedCosmos on Monday, a name for its incipient Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation designed as a sovereign connectivity backbone for European governments and companies.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the company said ConnectedCosmos will use optical inter-satellite links to create what it calls a gatewayless sovereign space mesh. The constellation\u2019s capabilities, it said, will include point-to-point broadband and direct-to-device (D2D) Internet of Things (IoT).<\/p>\n<p>The constellation will operate in Liechtenstein\u2019s high-priority Ka-band spectrum filings, which its government awarded Open Cosmos the rights to in January. The filings are a key geopolitical asset for Europe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConnectedCosmos represents a leap forward for Europe in building a resilient, secure and autonomous connectivity capability \u2013 giving nations and partners a reliable alternative for true sovereignty in orbit,\u201d Open Cosmos Founder and CEO Rafel Jord\u00e0 Siquier said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn a world where infrastructure can be disrupted, jammed, or compromised, our constellation ensures that critical data remains secure, trusted, and immediately usable,\u201d he continued. \u201cWith ConnectedCosmos, we are delivering to the world an alternative that matches technological excellence with strategic autonomy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>OpenCosmos engaged Rocket Lab to launch the constellation\u2019s first two satellites on Jan. 22, less than a week after the company announced it had secured the Ka-band filings.<\/p>\n<p>The company noted that ConnectedCosmos will also connect with its Earth Observation (EO) capabilities deployed in the Open Constellation. The company already has standing agreements to provide Greece and Spain with national Earth Observation satellites.<\/p>\n<p>Siquier told <em>Via Satellite <\/em>in January that he expects commercial interest from governments, telecom operators, and large corporations, noting automotive connectivity as a potential market.<\/p>\n<p>Open Cosmos operates manufacturing facilities in the U.K., Spain, Portugal, and Greece. In the statement, the company said it would launch more satellites and announce new partnerships throughout 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pan-European connectivity provider Open Cosmos announced ConnectedCosmos on Monday, a name for its incipient Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation designed as a sovereign connectivity backbone for European governments and companies. In a statement, the company said ConnectedCosmos will use optical inter-satellite links to create what it calls a gatewayless sovereign space mesh. The constellation\u2019s capabilities, it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47484"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}