{"id":844023,"date":"2026-09-11T10:52:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T10:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/844023\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T10:52:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T10:52:12","slug":"eutelsat-orders-extra-oneweb-satellites-and-kicks-off-iris%c2%b2-leo-contracts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/844023\/","title":{"rendered":"Eutelsat orders extra OneWeb satellites and kicks off IRIS\u00b2 LEO contracts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 Eutelsat has ordered another 229 OneWeb satellites to extend its low Earth orbit broadband constellation through 2034, alongside awarding contracts for the 330 LEO spacecraft in Europe\u2019s proposed IRIS\u00b2 network.<\/p>\n<p>To continue reading this article:<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:18px\">Register now to read<br \/>3 free articles this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:14px\">You\u2019ll also receive our weekly Editor\u2019s Choice, SpaceNews This Week and Opinions newsletters. Opt-out at any time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:16px\"><a href=\"#signin_modal\">Sign in to an existing account<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/author\/jason-rainbow\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" src=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Jason-Rainbow-150x150.jpg\" class=\"avatar avatar-120 photo wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJason Rainbow writes about satellite telecom, finance and commercial markets for SpaceNews. He has spent more than a decade covering the global space industry as a business journalist. Previously, he was Group Editor-in-Chief for Finance Information Group,&#8230;\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/author\/jason-rainbow\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMore by Jason Rainbow\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 Eutelsat has ordered another 229 OneWeb satellites to extend its low Earth orbit broadband constellation&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":844024,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[215143,22604,1076,24340,357273,114757,154547,25389,101396,79,43701,722,193,134647],"class_list":["post-844023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-aerospacelab","tag-airbus","tag-europe","tag-eutelsat","tag-hispasat","tag-iris","tag-ohb","tag-oneweb","tag-ororatech","tag-science","tag-ses","tag-sn","tag-space","tag-thales-alenia-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=844023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/844024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}