Eutelsat CEO on German Iris2 duplicate, GEO for Ukraine, Elon Musk as OneWeb’s ‘best thing,’ & the future need for Falcon 9

by Peter B. de Selding

TUPPER LAKE, NY — Eutelsat has opened negotiations with the European Commission to enable an EU purchase of Ka-band broadband capacity on Eutelsat’s Konnect VHTS satellite in geostationary orbit for Ukraine as a complement to the use of Eutelsat OneWeb LEO capacity, which is about sold out over Ukraine, Eutelsat Chief Executive Jean-François Fallacher said.

In Dec. 3 testimony before the French Senate’s Economic Affairs Committee, Fallacher also outlined why Eutelsat cannot promise it will no longer use SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket . . .

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