Speedcast deploys all-LEO Starlink connectivity across TGS survey fleet
Speedcast · TGS · SpaceX
Speedcast deployed an all-LEO Starlink connectivity solution across TGS's seismic survey fleet under a multi-year deal.
what happened
Speedcast announced August 19 it has implemented an all-LEO connectivity solution, centered on Starlink's Dedicated Service, across the global fleet of TGS, a data and intelligence provider to the energy industry, under a multi-year deal, per Via Satellite. The deployment covers TGS's high-capacity multi-sensor streamer vessels and Ocean Bottom Node operations and is orchestrated alongside Eutelsat OneWeb and other LEO networks by Speedcast's SIGMA Elite edge-compute platform. Speedcast said the solution enables near-real-time transmission and remote cloud processing of a full-integrity seismic data set of up to 10 terabytes a day at sustained upload speeds of 1 gigabit per second, replacing the physical transport of survey media from vessels. TGS Vice President Enterprise IT Jerome Cousin said the combination of high-performance connectivity and TGS's cloud operating model lets the company "securely manage and process ever-larger seismic datasets at unprecedented speed."
why it matters
The deal is a data point for how fast LEO connectivity is displacing physical media transport in offshore energy data collection, a vertical Speedcast and rival resellers are competing to lock in as Starlink's maritime bandwidth improves; for TGS, near-real-time seismic delivery shortens the lag between data capture and the exploration decisions it feeds.
for who
Maritime and offshore-energy connectivity resellers
signal-to-noise
quick facts
- Companies
- Speedcast, TGS, SpaceX
- Category
- partnership
- Impact
- notable
- SNR
- 3 / 5
- Event date
- 2026-08-19
- Published
- 2026-08-20 05:32 UTC