{"id":58638,"date":"2020-11-16T17:50:29","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T09:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/eutelsat-konnect-satellite-enters-into-service\/"},"modified":"2020-11-16T17:50:29","modified_gmt":"2020-11-16T09:50:29","slug":"eutelsat-konnect-satellite-enters-into-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/eutelsat-konnect-satellite-enters-into-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Eutelsat KONNECT Satellite Enters into Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Eutelsat Communications<\/strong> revealed Monday that its KONNECT High Throughput Satellite (HTS) entered into service at the 7 degrees East orbital position. This is the first Eutelsat satellite that will provide fixed broadband.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Arianespace<\/strong> launched Eutelsat\u2019s KONNECT from French Guiana in January earlier this year. The availability of KONNECT was delayed due to COVID-19 pandemic-related interruptions in the ground segment rollout. The satellite is now operational and will gradually ramp up with 80% of the capacity in service by the end of the year, and 100% by March 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The KONNECT satellite was built by <strong>Thales Alenia Space<\/strong> and the first to use Thales Alenia Space\u2019s new Spacebus Neo platform. The satellite is all-electric, and has 75 Gbps of capacity across a network of 65 spot-beams. Coverage will initially be split between Europe with approximately 55% of the capacity focused on high-demand areas such as France, Italy, Germany, Spain, the U.K., and Africa. The satellite will supplement, then gradually replace, the capacity leased from a third-party operator.<\/p>\n<p>The availability of KONNECT marks a major step in Eutelsat\u2019s fixed broadband connectivity strategy. <strong>Orange<\/strong> purchased all available French capacity of the satellite in July,&nbsp;and its subsidiary <strong>Nordnet <\/strong>will begin broadcasting fixed broadband services in January 2021.&nbsp;Additionally, Eutelsat\u2019s recent acquisition of <strong>BigBlu Broadband<\/strong> adds a retail pillar to its distribution network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eutelsat Communications revealed Monday that its KONNECT High Throughput Satellite (HTS) entered into service at the 7 degrees East orbital position. This is the first Eutelsat satellite that will provide fixed broadband. Arianespace launched Eutelsat\u2019s KONNECT from French Guiana in January earlier this year. The availability of KONNECT was delayed due to COVID-19 pandemic-related interruptions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56377,"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-58638","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\/58638"}],"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=58638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}