SES has announced the accelerating market momentum for its SES Sports Content Orchestration Enabler (SES SCORE) platform. Since its launch in 2023, SES SCORE adoption has seen an expanding customer base of over 200 broadcasters onboarded and a number of high-profile sports properties making it their platform of choice for content delivery. The platform has […]

SES has announced the expansion of its partnership with Telekom Srbija, adding two additional transponders and extending its capacity agreements through 2032. Telekom Srbija will use the added capacity to consolidate its m:Sat TV platform at the 23.5 degrees East orbital position to grow its DTH base across Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and North […]

Neo Space Group (NSG), a PIF company and Saudi Arabian commercial space services provider, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Display Interactive (DI), an innovator in wireless in-flight entertainment and connectivity (IFEC). The acquisition will strengthen NSG’s position in the aviation market as a provider of integrated, multi-orbit solutions, underpinned by intelligent bandwidth […]

The news that AT&T is paying some $23 billion (€19.8bn) for terrestrial cellular spectrum to EchoStar has alerted many analysts to the implied value of EchoStar’s remaining telephony spectrum. Reports are numerous that both Elon Musk – who has long coveted EchoStar satellite spectrum – and AT&T rival T-Mobile could be next in line for […]

Satellite operator SES and its Space & Defense division has been awarded a $89.6 million (€77.6m), five-year Sustainment Tactical Network (STN) contract to deliver commercial satellite communications (COMSATCOM) services to the US Army. The STN is an effort to modernise the Army’s logistics network and this partnership will ensure secure, global satellite connectivity for critical […]

SES says that it is aware that the FCC is looking for a further release of satellite C-band spectrum. Adel Al-Saleh, CEO, told analysts that SES expected the FCC “to move quite fast” in its move to secure more 5G spectrum. He said that 100 MHz was a possibility and that SES was prepared to […]

SES has unveiled its half-year results, and made the most of its new mantra: “Two companies: one mission”, now that it counts Intelsat as part of its portfolio. The results were joined by news from the US government’s Space Force is awarding contracts worth $4 billion to five companies: Astranis, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, Intelsat, and […]

The joint-venture between Reliance Jio and SES expects to start its satellite-delivered broadband service before the end of this year. “We have been ready with our ground infrastructure and everything else for the last two years,” said Harsh Verma, SES’s vice president of sales for the Asia-Pacific region, during a press briefing on July 24th. […]

SES, in a public/private partnership with the Luxembourg Government, is ordering a second highly-secure satellite, GovSat-2. GovSat, the 50/50 joint venture between SES and the Luxembourg Government, provides secure, reliable and accessible satellite communication services for governments. GovSat-2 will be positioned over the-2 European satellite arc. It will join GovSat-1 in augmenting reliable connectivity services […]

The latest pair of O3b mPOWER satellites was successfully launched into space by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, United States, at 5:12 pm local time, SES announced July 22nd. These two new satellites enhance global coverage and bring incremental capacity to scale up services provided by SES’s […]