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SES, AFP extend Live TV platform

SES has extended its relationship with Agence France-Presse (AFP) enabling AFP’s customers to continue leveraging the AFPTV Live platform for real-time access to live news and events from around the world. AFPTV Live, based on SES 360, offers a platform that enables users to access AFP’s live video news feeds and deliver content to their […]

August 1, 2023By Chris Forrester

Viasat reexamined after potential lost satellite

ViaSat-3 Americas is a potential lost satellite having suffered a malfunction on its giant antenna following its launch. A report from analysts at Quilty Space says: “[The problem with the satellite], after a heartbreaking seven years in the making saw shares of VSAT plummeted 30 per cent in the immediate aftermath despite management’s assurances of […]

July 31, 2023

SES wins extra Sports & Events business

Satellite operator SES says live sports and news events in the last 12 months are driving uptake on its dedicated sports and events satellite distribution platform – ASTRA 1 Sports. Covering Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, the ASTRA 1 Sports satellite distribution platform was leveraged for more than 1,500 events delivered to hundreds […]

July 19, 2023By Chris Forrester

Bank urges SES to buy back shares

Investment bank Berenberg, in a report to clients on the likely financials from satellite operator SES due on August 3rd, is urging SES to announce a buyback of shares. SES is due to receive about $3 billion (less 18-19 per cent tax) at the end of the year as its compensation from the FCC for […]

July 13, 2023

SES wins Indonesia’s TVRI World

TVRI, an Indonesian public broadcaster, in collaboration with PT Telkom Indonesia and its subsidiary Telkomsat, are putting a HD channel, TVRI World, delivered to TV homes via SES’s DTH satellites. The English-language TVRI World channel is now broadcasting across Europe via Astra 19.2 degrees East and the Middle East via YahSat 52.5 degrees East. As […]

July 6, 2023By Chris Forrester

10 years of O3b

Ten years ago, the first batch of four O3b satellites were successfully launched. July 2014 saw a second batch of four launched into orbit at 8,063 km altitude. Since those early days, SES, which owns the O3b fleet, has grown and now includes the much more powerful mPOWER fleet of craft, orbiting nearby at 8,066 […]

June 29, 2023

SES-18 open for C-band business

SES’s latest satellite, SES-18, has gone fully operational from 103 degrees West. The craft replaces SES-3’s C-band payload. SES-18 is enabling SES to continue delivering C-band broadcast and radio services to millions of US homes, as well as provide other critical network communications services to the US. SES-19, which was launched in tandem with SES-18, […]

June 27, 2023By Chris Forrester

SES set to win Intelsat C-band claim

SES has won a significant step in its long-running action against Intelsat over how the FCC’s compensation for C-band is apportioned. A Delaware Appeal Court has reversed the decision made by Intelsat’s bankruptcy court which ruled out the claim from SES. The Appeal Court has directed the claim now go back to Intelsat’s Bankruptcy Court. […]

June 26, 2023By Chris Forrester

SES share price rockets after merger collapse

SES issued a somewhat cryptic statement on June 22nd following the collapse of its hoped-for merger with arch-rival Intelsat. The SES statement read: “There are always two parties in a negotiation. It has become clear that a path to an agreement which would be acceptable to SES and Intelsat cannot be found, and so both […]

June 23, 2023By Chris Forrester

Intelsat scrubs SES merger talks

The merger discussions between the world’s two largest satellite operators, SES and Intelsat, are over. Intelsat said a deal, valued at a potential $10 billion (€9.1bn), is now off the table. SES announced June 22nd that discussions regarding a possible combination with Intelsat have ceased. On March 29th, SES had confirmed that the company had […]

June 22, 2023By Chris Forrester