WASHINGTON — Airbus Defence and Space expressed remarkable confidence that its OneSat software-defined satellite design, whose inaugural, three-satellite order with Inmarsat finishes its critical design review this month, will be a hit with global telecommunications satellite fleet operators.
Airbus is one of several manufacturers building satellites that are smaller than their usual geostationary-orbit products and can be built in 18 months for about $100 million. Fully reconfigurable in orbit, they are built to be moved from one orbital slot to another and to reshape their coverage areas . . .
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