PARIS — Mobile satellite services provider Inmarsat on May 30 confirmed it is ordering three software-defined new-generation satellites from Airbus in a deal industry officials said is valued at around $300 million.
The all-electric satellites, each weighing less than 3,000 kilograms, will inaugurate Airbus Defence and Space’s OneSat product line, designed to produce satellites in a series, with little differences between them, that can be sold to multiple fleet owners.
In the manner of commercial aircraft, each satellite then would be . . .
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