GovSat is a joint-venture between the Luxembourg government and local satellite operator SES. The satellite, which focuses its capacity on European military and the need for highly-secure communications, was launched in 2018. Although its concept was looked at with some scepticism it has proved to be highly successful and now Luxembourg’s Minister of Defence Yuriko […]
Satellite operator SES will this year celebrate its 40th Anniversary. CEO Adel Al-Saleh has been doing the rounds with local Luxembourg press and TV to update citizens of progress at the company, and to allay fears that a recent round of 68 redundancies at its Betzdorf headquarters will be followed by more. Al-Saleh told RTL […]
LuxConnect, based in Bettembourg, Luxembourg, has been awarded one of the IRIS² control centres. IRIS2 is Europe’s mega-constellation of satellites and designed to provide ultra-secure communications for government and military purposes. It is managed by three leading European satellite network operators: SES from Luxembourg, Eutelsat from France, and the Spanish Hispasat. IRIS² control centres are […]
SES is trimming staff at its Luxembourg HQ. Local press reports, quoting union representatives, say that the satellite giant is cutting 68 jobs which is fewer than earlier planned. The two staff unions (OGBL and LCGB) had previously talked of up to 80 jobs being cut. “As part of the negotiations with the unions, the […]
Proximus Group has signed a binding agreement with InfraRed Capital Partners to sell 100 per cent of the shares of Proximus Luxembourg Infrastructure (PLI) for a total consideration of €108 million (including cash on the balance sheet) to InfraRed’s European Infrastructure Income Fund 4 (EIIF4). PLI is the first independent TowerCo entity in Luxembourg and […]
The NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA) has awarded SES a contract to deliver secure high-performance low-latency satellite services via its medium earth orbit (MEO) constellation, enabling global missions for NATO member government organisations, agencies and military. The MEO Global Services (MGS) award represents a three-year Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract valued at $200 million […]
TF1 group’s free streaming platform, TF1+, will launch in Belgium and Luxembourg on June 18th. The TF1+ app will be available across all screens (mobile, tablet, PC, smart TV) across a range of devices (Google TV, Android TV, Samsung, LG, Hisense, Sony, Philips, Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, etc). An ad-free ‘TF1+ Premium’ service is […]
France’s TF1 Group will roll out its TF1+ streaming service to international markets from June. TF1+ launched in Framce in January, and currently has more than 200 box sets of shows and over 400 films in its library, as well as around 50 FAST channels. Rudolph Belmer, TF1 Group CEO, told Series Mania attendees in […]
The Space & Satellite Professionals International (SSPI) organisation, in a revealing podcast, looks at the role of Luxembourg in space and satellite activity. Luxembourg is the home of SES (founded in Luxembourg in 1985) and the tiny country has more recently has been the official domicile of Intelsat. In its Better Satellite World podcast, SSPI’s […]
Luxembourg-based pay-TV provider M7 Group, owned by Canal+ Group, has concluded a multi-year capacity agreement with A+E Networks EMEA for the satellite distribution of its flagship History and Crime+Investigation channels across Europe. The agreement allows A+E Networks EMEA to deliver the channels via the M7 satellite platform on 1 degree West to its affiliate customers […]