Replacement for aging Syracuse satellites.
"All electric - Eutelsat Konnect is the first spacecraft built on the new Spacebus Neo satellite bus, which was developed by Thales with funding from the European Space Agency and the French government, including the French space agency, CNES."
"Also hosts a geostationary orbit node for the?European Geostationary Navigation Overlay System, or EGNOS, to beam GPS and Galileo navigation augmentation signals to improve position accuracy and reliability."
"Key customers are the Myanmar Ministry of Transport and Communications, as well as U.S. government users."
All electric. Less fuel load but longer transit time to orbital position.
"Direct-to-home television programming over Europe, Africa and the Middle East with 44 Ku-band transponders and a Ka-band payload owned by Hellas-Sat; S-band payload will connect airline passengers traveling across Europe with Wi-Fi as part of Inmarsat?s European Aviation Network."
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