OneSat

OneSat is the product line of fully flexible, in orbit reconfigurable geostationary communications satellites that Airbus markets as Software Defined Satellites, built to balance performance, flexibility and cost per bit. Airbus signed a contract with Intelsat on 31 December 2020 to build two OneSat satellites operating in several frequency bands for Intelsat next generation software defined network, to be delivered in 2023, and by then it counted six OneSat satellites in production, plus options, for three major operators. Airbus said it would draw on new industrial capabilities at its European sites together with its experience of Eurostar geostationary satellites and mega-constellation manufacturing to build them at pace. Thaicom, Optus and Sky Perfect JSAT are other customers, and Thaicom order of September 2023 was the ninth for the line.