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Optus Australian telecommunications and satellite-network operator
Company website Optus operates satellite communications services and ground operations alongside terrestrial telecommunications services, including GEO fleet operations, satellite capacity delivery, tracking/telemetry/control, and emerging direct-to-device and LEO programs.
Relationships Government awards & missions Network map Peers Supplies or enables Optus Airbus — supplier Tell me more Airbus Defence and Space supplies the fully reconfigurable OneSat telecommunications satellite (Optus 11) to Optus under a 2020 contract for flexible broadcast and broadband services in the Asia-Pacific region.
Relationship research record Arianespace — launch services Tell me more Arianespace provided launch services for Optus 10 on an Ariane 5 ECA rocket in September 2014.
Relationship research record Northrop Grumman — supplier Tell me more Northrop Grumman’s SpaceLogistics division supplies a Mission Extension Pod (MEP) to Optus for installation on the Optus D3 satellite in 2025 under a purchase agreement announced in 2022.
Relationship research record SpaceX — launch services · strategic partner 2 connections Tell me more SpaceX provides launch services for the Mission Robotic Vehicle and Mission Extension Pods (including Optus D3 MEP) under a 2022 agreement, with planned 2024 launch.
Relationship research record SpaceX partners with Optus (2023 agreement) to deliver direct-to-cell mobile connectivity via Starlink satellites, expanding coverage to remote areas of Australia with phased rollout starting 2024.
Relationship research record Space Systems/Loral — supplier Tell me more Space Systems/Loral (SSL) manufactured the Optus 10 satellite (LS-1300 bus with 24 Ku-band transponders) under a 2011 contract, launched in 2014.
Relationship research record Optus supplies or serves None currently known.
Program partners Space Machines Company — strategic partner Tell me more Space Machines Company partners with Optus (2022 agreement) to explore and develop sovereign Australian spacecraft manufacturing, on-orbit transportation, servicing, and space capabilities for civil and defence applications.
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Government awards & missions Special Broadcasting Service — vast-satellite-transmission-customer Tell me more Special Broadcasting Service pays Optus for satellite transmission over VAST, and SBS publicly documented migration of its VAST channels across Optus C1 and D3 capacity. · Viewer Access Satellite Television (VAST)
SBS described Optus delivery of VAST via C1 and D3, and a government review states that SBS pays Optus for VAST transmission.
customer organization Australian Broadcasting Corporation — vast-satellite-transmission-customer Tell me more The Australian Broadcasting Corporation pays Optus for satellite transmission of its television channels over the Viewer Access Satellite Television network for remote and terrestrial-black-spot households. · Viewer Access Satellite Television (VAST)
A government review states explicitly that ABC pays Optus for VAST satellite transmission.
customer organization University of Southern Queensland — research-payload-and-consortium-collaborator Tell me more Optus's LEO satellite consortium includes the University of Southern Queensland, which is developing research equipment and a payload in partnership with High Earth Orbit Robotics. · Defence–Optus sovereign LEO satellite project
Defence and UniSQ both identify UniSQ's research equipment and participation in the Optus-led satellite consortium.
customer organization Australian Department of Defence — defense-satellite-communications-operator-and-sustainment-provider Tell me more Optus provides and sustains satellite communications capability for the Australian Department of Defence through the Optus C1 satellite partnership, including related ground infrastructure at Optus facilities. · Optus C1 / Defence C1 satellite communications
Australian Defence stated that the extension would provide Australian Defence Force users satellite communications capacity and fund ground infrastructure plus operating and sustainment work at Optus sites.
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