While the IRIS2 broadband consortium headlines, and its €6 billion costs, will still be dominated by the heavyweight participants such as SES, Eutelsat, Thales and Airbus, there will definitely be an opportunity for smaller space businesses to be involved. The EC’s director for space and innovation, Catherine Kavvada, speaking at the Paris Air Forum ahead […]

The European Commission has rejected four smaller consortia for its IRIS2 low Earth orbiting constellation. It has selected a consortium made up of Airbus Defense & Space, Eutelsat, Hispasat, SES and Thales Alenia Space, backed also by Deutsche Telekom, OHB SE, Orange, Hisdesat, Telespazio and Thales Group. This major group will now fine tune its […]

The news that Steve Collar, SES’s CEO, is stepping down sent the satellite operator’s shares into near-meltdown. Over the past 5 days the SES share-price has fallen 14.70 percent, including a further 1.55 per cent on June 13th to an ‘all-time low’ of just €4.70. Confidence in SES seems to have evaporated. A report from […]

Satellite operator SES has announced that Steve Collar, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), will be stepping down at the end of June 2023 to pursue other professional and personal endeavours. The search for a successor is underway and Ruy Pinto, currently Chief Technology Officer of SES, will assume the role of CEO until a permanent successor […]

The normal transition for any departing CEO at a major quoted company is well established. Weeks – and sometimes months – of advanced notice are given to shareholders and the market of an impending change in leadership. That has not happened in the case of Steve Collar, the suddenly outgoing CEO at SES. Collar will […]

Raytheon Technologies-owned Collins Aerospace business will bring unlimited data to the customers of Vista, the private aviation group. Using Collins’ LuxStream, which runs exclusively on the SES’s high-throughput satellite (HTS) network, Vista customers can now access unlimited Internet for the duration of their flights. Since 2019, Vista has installed LuxStream on more than 75 aircraft […]

SES has announced the results of its annual Satellite Monitor market research, a survey that tracks satellite TV’s reach across a wide range of global regions and industry metrics. SES now delivers more than 8,000 channels to a total of 369 million TV homes worldwide, an increase of three million over the previous year, confirming […]

SES needs six of its O3b/mPOWER satellites in orbit to kick-start its global service. Four are already in orbit out of the eleven that will eventually complete the constellation. Boeing is wrapping up the next two (mPOWER 5 and 6) in readiness for launch in June on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. SES CEO Steve […]

SES CEO Steve Collar, speaking to analysts following on from the satellite operator’s Q1 results on May 4th, said the European Union’s third global satellite constellation, IRIS², was a “strategic project” for SES. Nevertheless, he admitted that while enthusiastic there were still many known unknowns and it was too early to be more specific. “We’re […]

SES has reported a “solid” set of numbers with revenue of €490 million (+9.6 per cent YOY) including contribution from DRS Global Enterprise Solutions and a stronger US dollar. SES says it signed €90 million in new business for its Mobility division, and €110 million in either renewals or new business in Video. But Video […]