Tuesday, June 16, 2026
Eutelsat wins ~€350M French military OneWeb capacity contract
Eutelsat announced on June 15 the signature of the CENTAURE contract through France's Directorate General of Armaments (DGA), the first call-off order under the roughly €1 billion NEXUS framework agreement with the French Ministry of the Armed Forces. The deal is worth about €350 million over up to eight years, including a firm €138 million initial commitment across four years, to supply OneWeb low-Earth-orbit capacity across areas of strategic interest and harden the security of Eutelsat's LEO services. It gives the French military low-latency global connectivity during the ramp-up of Europe's sovereign IRIS² constellation.