Eutelsat OneWeb’s Post

It's less than two weeks until the Eutelsat OneWeb team will be arriving at Aviation Festival Americas 2024 🛫 Our team will soon be heading to Miami to speak to partners and customers from across the aviation industry about our space-based connectivity solutions, including our unique GEO-LEO satellite network. You'll be able to find Claire Gombault and Nick Maynard from our aviation team at Stand #324, or contact us in advance at aviation@oneweb.net. We'll see you there soon!

Eutelsat OneWeb: Connecting Antarctica alongside the British Antarctic Survey ❄️ We have launched our low Earth orbit connectivity services in Antarctica for the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), a world-leading centre for polar science and polar operations. Our network is providing high-speed connectivity to the Rothera Research Station. With traditional internet connectivity in Antarctica limited to solutions offering up to 5mbps at most, our services are set to deliver data rates of up to 120mbps with significantly increased reliability. In order to deliver services to the unique Antarctic region, our team developed a new system, named TALARIA. The innovative system includes a groundstation in Chile, along with a user terminal installed at the Rothera Research Station – 1,000 miles away. Commenting on this milestone for remote connectivity, Maurizio Vanotti, VP for Commercial Strategy and Innovation, Eutelsat OneWeb, said: “With communications and internet connectivity limited in Antarctica, this trial in the region is a testament to our commitment to facilitating global connectivity in the most un-connected regions of the world.” Valéry Gineste, our VP of Technology & Innovation, added: “The TALARIA system is an innovation to deliver dramatically increased bandwidth using LEO connectivity for the very hardest to reach parts of the world. This has been an exciting opportunity to create an entirely new remote connectivity system for Antarctica from concept to delivery inside 18 months.” We'd like to thank all our partners involved in this project for enabling vital connectivity in one of the world's most remote locations: British Antarctic Survey, European Space Agency - ESA, Cobham Satcom and Comtech Telecommunications Corp. You can find out more about the TALARIA system and our activity in Antarctica on our website via the link in the comments, below 👇

Last week, members of the Eutelsat OneWeb team participated in the Indian Defence Symposium 2024, by ISpA- Indian Space Association 🛰️ Our Regional Vice President for APAC, Neha Idnani, spoke on a panel about the importance of enabling secure, reliable, and seamless connectivity – providing updates on how Eutelsat Group’s hybrid GEO-LEO networks can provide unique and resilient solutions for governments and defence. Our Regional Director, Nishtha Kapoor, also presented at the event, highlighting LEO capabilities specially for the defence services and how our high-speed, low latency services can strengthen the secure connectivity needs of the forces. We were delighted to be a platinum sponsor of the conference and thank our colleagues and partners from across the industry for their valuable discussions at the event.

What has got Nick Maynard, our Market Development Director for Commercial Aviation, so excited about 2024? 🛫 Could it be that Eutelsat OneWeb is ready to launch its global inflight connectivity solutions? Could it be that our constellation of over 600 low Earth orbit satellites is now fully deployed and the build-out of our global ground infrastructure is accelerating? Or is it because airlines worldwide are coming onboard – realising that a consistent, global, multi-orbit solution that leverages the best of LEO and the best of GEO is a unique proposition that no other satellite provider can match? Maybe it's all of the above. But we suggest you meet with Nick and the rest of the team at Aircraft Interiors Expo to find out! You can book a meeting with Nick and the commercial aviation team at for this year's event in Hamburg at the end of May, by following the link in the comments section, below 👇

In this weeks’ commercial aviation video, our Market Development Director, Commercial Aviation, Dermot Cahalan, touches on why we believe our low Earth orbit constellation represents the future of inflight connectivity, delivering benefits to both the passenger and the airline 🛫 Of course, we’re not doing this in isolation – we’re working hand in hand with our distribution partners, Intelsat, Hughes and Panasonic Avionics Corporation to deliver airlines a scalable and credible solution for the aviation industry, by the aviation industry. You can meet the commercial aviation team and our Distribution Partners at Aircraft Interiors Expo in Hamburg at the end of May, to book a meeting please use the link in the comments section below 👇

We are supporting the disaster relief efforts in Taiwan with our partner Chunghwa Telecom using Eutelsat OneWeb LEO connectivity ⛑️ Pictured below is a mobile rescue vehicle in Hualien which is connecting first responders on site and allowing them to report back to their response centre. The vehicle, connected by Chunghwa Telecom using the Eutelsat OneWeb low Earth orbit satellite network via a Kymeta Corporation u8 terminal, enables vital communications for disaster victims and relief workers in an area facing network disruption and power supply issues. Communications and connectivity are vital at times of emergency. The entire Eutelsat OneWeb team is proud to be supporting the rescue and relief efforts. Our thoughts are with all of those affected.

In this week’s commercial aviation update, Eutelsat OneWeb's Director of Commercial Aviation, Claire Gombault, provides a brief update as to where we are in terms of the introduction of our global aviation services later this year 🛫 "In a nutshell we’re good to go! We have a number of airline selections already announced through our distribution partner Intelsat and we expect further announcements in the coming weeks ahead of our first commercial flight later this summer." The commercial aviation team will be attending Aircraft Interiors Expo in Hamburg at the end of May, to book a meeting please use the link in the comments section below 👇

Introducing the new Hughes HL1120W Terminal - now commercially available ⚡ Hughes' new HL1120W electronically steerable antenna-based (ESA) user terminal is now available for commercial use, and is designed for the outdoor environment. It is lightweight, low-power, weather-tight and easy to install and maintain. It is constructed with a durable aluminium chassis and is configured to function right out of the box with self-pointing to the Eutelsat OneWeb satellite constellation. Commenting on the announcement, Juan Pablo Cofino, Regional Vice President Americas, Eutelsat OneWeb, said: “We are delighted to add the HL1120W to our product portfolio and this terminal is well poised to meet a range of enterprise and government uses. Hughes is a longstanding technology and distribution partner of ours and the addition of this terminal will help us extend connectivity services even faster and further for Hughes and also for our partners around the world. "We look forward to seeing this terminal switched on in communities, businesses and for governments everywhere.” Find out more about this announcement on Hughes' website via the link in the comments 👇