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Intelsat announced a strategic advance in its service capabilities through an expanded partnership with <\/strong>Eutelsat Group<\/strong> related to that company\u2019s <\/strong>OneWeb<\/strong> <\/strong>low-earth orbit (LEO)<\/strong><\/strong> constellation. The deal is a significant development for multi-orbit satellite connectivity solutions and positions Intelsat at the forefront of the next wave in global connectivity.<\/p>\n The arrangement provides a commitment of $250 million for LEO service over the first six years, with an option for an additional $250 million. This agreement will increase and further integrate LEO capabilities into Intelsat\u2019s solutions offerings across its current and future customer base.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ve been partnering with Eutelsat for quite some time now, leveraging its OneWeb LEO constellation to offer a multi-orbit solution, primarily in commercial aviation,\u201d said Dave Wajsgras<\/strong>, CEO of Intelsat. \u201cWe\u2019re now seeing so many additional opportunities for customers to benefit from multi-orbit solutions. We believe it\u2019s in Intelsat\u2019s interests, Eutelsat\u2019s interests, and our customers\u2019 interests for us to expand the partnership that\u2019s already in place \u2013 one that is working well and has strong demand.\u201d<\/p>\n As part of the partnership, Intelsat will cooperate with Eutelsat in the development of its Next Generation OneWeb constellation \u2013 providing direct design and functionality input to help ensure that the new constellation will have the capabilities to meet real-world customer needs going forward.<\/p>\n Eva Berneke, Chief Executive Officer of Eutelsat Group<\/strong>, said, \u201cThis expanded partnership with Intelsat represents a strong vote of confidence in the capabilities of the OneWeb constellation, today and well into the future, and it showcases the necessity in today\u2019s world for major satellite operators to have the ability to offer multi-orbit solutions to their customers.\u201d<\/p>\n Intelsat\u2019s Wajsgras added, \u201cOur team is convinced that pairing Intelsat\u2019s experience and our GEO and terrestrial network with the capabilities we will access via Eutelsat Group\u2019s OneWeb LEO network will enable Intelsat to deliver the absolute best and most comprehensive customer solutions supporting networks, government, and mobility sectors and fueling our robust growth trajectory.\u201d <\/p>\n Click here to learn more about Eutelsat Group’s OneWeb LEO network.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Intelsat announced a strategic advance in its service capabilities through an expanded partnership with Eutelsat Group related to that company\u2019s OneWeb low-earth orbit (LEO) constellation. The deal is a significant development for multi-orbit satellite connectivity solutions and positions Intelsat at the forefront of the next wave in global connectivity. The arrangement provides a commitment of $250 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[26,25,38,20],"class_list":["post-7543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ground","tag-launch","tag-leo","tag-satellite"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7543"}],"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=7543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}