Luxembourg, already a major investor in SES, has announced it will leverage capacity on the SES O3b mPOWER fleet for government usage extending to Europe and NATO demand for defence and disaster recovery. The agreement also says it will support further “strategic partnerships” between Luxembourg and the US. Luxembourg’s Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Defence, […]
Marlink, a provider of smart network solutions, is working with SES on a major digital transmission project for French Guiana which intends to “bridge the digital divide” in the country. Marlink has been awarded a Public Service Delegation contract to set up broadband Internet and 4G/5G services via satellite networks covering the entire French region. […]
Arabsat’s next satellite, its BADR-8 craft, is likely to be launched by SpaceX in May. But between now and then, SpaceX has an extremely full manifest of launches with satellites for OneWeb, SES, O3b, Intelsat, Viasat, EchoStar, Türksat as well as a NASA crew launch and its own Starlink satellites. It has a Starlink launch […]
The SES-18 and 19 satellites have left Northrop Grumman’s facility near Dulles airport in Washington DC and are headed to Florida for a launch date with SpaceX. These pair of satellites are the last in the overall six-craft mission for SES to replace orbital assets following on from the freeing up of C-band frequencies for […]
Infront and SES partnered to jointly deliver the recently-concluded ski races of the 2023 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships from the French Alps to viewers across Europe, Asia and the Americas, both companies announced today. A leading sports media and marketing company, Infront leveraged SES’s dedicated sports and events distribution platform to efficiently and reliably […]
A consortium of businesses have secured the UK’s satellite Skynet military satellite communications system. SES and Intelsat have linked with Babcock Integrated Technology to win the management transition contract which covers the next 6 years of usage. The contract is valued at £400 million (€450.4m) and will lead to around 400+ new jobs in the […]
A meeting of the European Parliament on February 14th saw 604 members vote in favour of financing the IRIS² mega-constellation of low Earth orbiting satellites. Just six members objected. The Parliament approved the plan to invest €2.4 billion (about $2.57 billion) in initial funding. The cash is drawn from Horizon Europe research fund (€430 million), […]
SES Space & Defense has requested – and been granted – a new FCC experimental test licence (a Special Temporary Authority) to “test and demonstrate a terminal for operations with the O3b constellation for prospective government customers,” says the application. The two-unit tests will take place at Port St Lucie, Florida, beginning in on February […]
SES has had a legal action running against Intelsat which asks for Intelsat to pay what SES alleged was Intelsat’s 50 per cent of the costs of running the C-Band Alliance. The action is paused while the larger legal action against Intelsat and where SES is suing for a 50/50 division of the FCC’s Accelerated […]
SES-owned O3b’s mPOWER Networks has won an extended contract with Vodafone Cook Islands for 4G+ and high-performance broadband-by-satellite. The service will serve Cook Islands including the outer islands in the region. O3b mPOWER is SES’s second-generation medium earth orbit (MEO) system. Vodafone Cook Islands will leverage SES’s Mobile Backhaul mPOWER service to deliver increased access […]