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France Eutelsat has had an EU technology sovereignty impetus.
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For years, France Eutelsat Attempted to build an alternative to Europe Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite broadband service.
The company joined British satellite action in 2023.
Last week, the French state invested 1,35 million euros ($ 1,58 million), with a 30% participation of the company’s largest shareholder.
Europe largely remains behind the US in the global space race. Starlink’s constellation of more than 7,000 satellites in Eutelsat. Meanwhile, Europe’s boot capabilities are more limited to America for a lot of booting services, which is the market dominated by SpaceX.
Eutelsat currently has a capitalization of the market of 1,6 billion euros, much smaller than estimates of the value of the Starlink owner’s space Pegged 350 billion dollars Last year in the sale of secondary shares. In 2020, Morgan Stanley analysts said Starlink 80.9 trillion dollars are growing “Basic case assessment for the company.
Luke Kehoe Ookla Network Driver’s Eutelsat’s investment show “Today Eutelsat is similar to Telco trade and uses more” active “and” active assets “of the criticism infrastructure supplier Technological sovereignty.
However, building a European competitor in the Starlink does not mean the feat.
Scale account
Experts in the communications industry tell CNBC, although EutelSat can encourage the efforts to create Internet suppliers of the European Saturan Satellite, a significant increase in investments in low-orbits of the U.S. Stars (LEO) satellites.
Eutelsat’s Oneweb arm operates a satellite of 650 Leo, a 7.600 tenth of a tenth of the global constellation of Starlinks in Starlink.
“To provide greater skills and coatings, the task must be more difficult in space.
Ookla’s Kehoe resonated this view. “Eutelsatek Starlink is limited to the parity of the Satellite broadband Satellite segment in the massage mass market, seen in the global scale of the LEO infrastructure,” he said.
“Along with the final capital of the French state capital, Eutelsat Starrink continues to stop in various key areas, including capital, manufacturing, access, spectra and user terminals.”
However, the company “believes that it is very well located in European sovereignty, sensitive safety and business segments, which prioritize the jurisdiction control and sovereignty on the gross constellation.” Enterprise segment refers to the market for corporate space customers.
Can Eutelsat replace Starlink in Europe?
That is definitely hope. French Emmanuel Macron asked Europe to increase its investment in its investment, last week, “spaces have become somehow measurement of international power”.
When Eutelsat announced the investment last week last week, “Leo is the only European operator with a fully operational network. The strategic role of Leo constellation in France for sovereign defense and space communications “.
This year, Eutelsat believed that he was running to replace the Starlink in Ukraine. The Starlink has been the Ukrainian military for years to help Russia’s continuous invasion of Russia.
Relationship between the US and Ukraine following the president’s election Donald Trump And reports emerged that the U.S. negotiators raised the opportunity to cut access to Ukrainian Starlink.
Germany in Ukraine established 1,000 eutelsat terminals in April, with an alternative, rather than a replacement, 50,000 terminals in the country’s 50,000 war countries in Starlink.
Since then, the USA-Ukrainian tensions have cooled slightly, and the starlink satellite is the main provider of the broadband to Ukrainian military.
Eutelsat Extra Director General Eva Berneke admits that the company cannot match the Starlink scale.
“If we took the full connectivity capacity for all Ukraine and citizens, we could not do that. Let us be very honest” said with political April dialogue.
Jean-Francois-Fallacher was replaced by Bernke May as the former executive of the French telecommunications giant Orange.
Apples and oranges
Meanwhile, Eutelsat Leo satellite has made investments with its ONEWEB drive, experts say that its technical architecture and orbital designs are ultimately different in Starlink.
“The OneWeb constellations today uses the architecture today, not as skilled as Starlink satellites; so ONEWEB will also invest in second-generation satellites,” he added.
The instances of the French company are also not in Starlink. Eutelsat has a constellation of the orbit (GEO) and Leo satellites. Geo satellites at a higher height of the earth’s orbit, than Leo equivalent and can usually cover more land with less satellites.
“Eutelsat are taken advantage of specialized cases of use of satellites, such as Greenland and Alaska Polar coatings for remote regions and research facilities.” Said Joe Vaccaro, Vice President and CEO Cisco’s A thousand network intelligence units.
Looking forward, Eutelsat said “to build” building improvements “, distinguished market model” and “strong European anchor”.
