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yet selected the manufacturer. be digitally processed, offering capacity Mediterranean, the Middle East, Indian
European coverage allocation flexibility. Eutelsat chief Ocean, Africa
Eutelsat intends to invest €400M executive Rodolphe Belmer says another • Amazonas Nexus – 2022 – South
(US$440M) per year on satellites, planned satellite, Konnect VHTS, will carry America
launching at least three satellites in the Ka-band payloads. “The procurement of More satellite capacity additions
next three years for mobility services Eutelsat 10B underpins our strategy of Sky Perfect JSAT is expanding its capacity
including Eutelsat Quantum and Eutelsat focusing our development in the field of by commissioning recently launched
Konnect VHTS for services over Europe. connectivity,” he says. “The selection of JCSAT-17. This followed the launch of
Then, Eutelsat 10B is planned for launch its Ku-band payload, in complement to the JCSAT-1C satellite in December 2019,
in 2022 to provide maritime coverage from future Konnect VHTS operating in Ka-band, which came into service in January 2020.
the Atlantic Ocean to the Indian Ocean. reflects our ability to serve our customers These increased the company’s fleet to 19
Thales Alenia Space is contracted to build in both Ka- and Ku-band.” satellites, covering from North America to
Eutelsat 10B which will replace Eutelsat Future satellite launches and coverage the Indian Ocean and Pacific. Thales Alenia
10A, due to finish service in 2023. The 10B • SES-17 – 2021 – Caribbean, Atlantic Space has been contracted by Hispasat to
satellite will carry two widebeam C- and and Americas build the Amazonas Nexus satellite which
two multi-beam HTS Ku-band payloads. A • O3b mPower – 2021-2022 – global will have a digital processor for flexible
high-capacity payload covering the North MEO coverage adaption of spot beam coverage for
Atlantic corridor, Europe, the Mediterranean • Intelsat – Galaxy 30 – 2020 – Pacific maritime mobility services. This satellite
and the Middle East will be included. A • Intelsat 40e – 2022 – North, central will provide Ku-band coverage across
second HTS payload extends coverage Americas the Americas, Greenland and the North
across the Atlantic Ocean, Africa and the • Intelsat EpicNG Ph2 – 2022-2025 Atlantic. Amazonas Nexus is due to be
Indian Ocean. The satellite’s HTS payloads • Eutelsat Quantum – 2020 – to be launched in H2 2022 and represents the
will be able to process more than 50 GHz of determined start of a new generation of satellites in
bandwidth, offering a throughput of around • Eutelsat Konnect VHTS – 2021 – Europe Hispasat’s fleet.
35 Gbps. The entire satellite payload will • Eutelsat 10B – 2022 – Atlantic Ocean,

Satellite Traffic Management System to Ensure Reliability of Services to

End Users

Atos, a global leader in digital in real time and help Arabsat eliminate slightest problem occurs. This allows us to
transformation, has been chosen by service interruption. This is a key asset to provide the highest quality of service to our
Arabsat, one of the world’s top satellite deliver the optimal quality and ensure the customers, which is our most important
operators and leading satellite services reliability of Arabsat’s satellite services objective.” said [Khalid Balkheyour,
provider across the Middle East and to its customers. More specifically, the President & CEO at Arabsat. “We are
Africa, to provide a state-of-the-art Atos solution performs spectral, radio delighted to support Arabsat in its day-
satellite monitoring solution to mitigate frequency and quality of service (QoS) to-day mission to deliver satellite-based,
interferences in Arabsat’s satellite measurements to detect interferences, public and private telecommunications
services and ensure the highest quality of unwanted signals, transmission breaches services to tens of millions of homes in
service to its end-users. The Atos solution, or unknown satellite carriers – whether more than 80 countries across the Middle
the SkyMon carrier monitoring system they are hidden or visible on the spectrum, East, Africa and Europe.” said Bruno Milard,
(CMS), is now operational at Arabsat’s continuous or intermittent. All of these can VP, Head of Business Unit Aerospace &
ground stations throughout the region, be identified on one single solution in order Defense Electronics at Atos. “To gain
including a main site in Riyadh, Saudi to take prompt counteractive measures. precious time in solving interference-
Arabia. It monitors all payload signals “Thanks to Atos’ radio frequency traffic related issues, Arabsat can rely on
and traffic within Arabsat’s satellite fleet, monitoring system, we make sure to SkyMon’s fully-integrated comprehensive
in different locations, 24 hours a day, 7 quickly identify all irregularities and rapidly geolocation system.”
days a week – to detect interferences coordinate response actions when the

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