Société Européenne des Satellites
SES S.A. is a Luxembourgish communications satellite operator and a global leader in content and connectivity solutions, owning and operating over 70 satellites in geostationary orbit (GEO) and medium Earth orbit (MEO). They deliver video and data connectivity worldwide to broadcasters, content and internet service providers, mobile and fixed network operators, governments, and institutions. SES's major projects include operating the European Astra TV satellites and the O3b mPOWER data satellites, and they have partnerships with organizations like the European Space Agency (ESA) and the US Army. Associated keywords: satellite communications, GEO, MEO, connectivity, Luxembourg.
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SES is months away from launching initial services for its upgraded O3b mPower broadband network in medium Earth orbit (MEO).
SES will sell and manage the SES Cruise mPowered + Starlink multi-orbit service when it becomes operational later 2023.
Boeing is contracted to provide 11 Ka-band O3b mPower satellites to enable full services from SES’s second-generation MEO constellation.
SES plans to launch the next two O3b mPower satellites in October and would need to ship them by the end of September to meet that schedule.
SES partnered with Starlink to sell a managed service targeting the cruise market.
The capacity agreement extension between SES and UKTV was announced in Luxembourg on 12 September 2023.
SES will provide new uplinking and ground services to UKTV under the extended agreement.
Viewers across the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland will continue to receive UKTV programming via SES’s 28.2 degrees East neighbourhood under the extended agreement.
The multi-year collaboration between SES and CFE TEIT will expand CFE TEIT’s reach into unconnected and underserved communities in Mexico to provide high-speed broadband and mobile 0.004 kg network access.
On 7 September 2023 SES and CFE Telecomunicaciones e Internet para Todos delivered voice and data services enabled by SES’s Mobile Backhaul solution to 400 underserved, remote villages and communities across Mexico via the SES-17 Ka-band satellite.
Under the new agreement, Telemor will substantially increase its service uptake via SES’s O3b constellation operating in MEO.
SES’s O3b constellation operates in medium Earth orbit (MEO).
The expanded Telemor–SES partnership is intended to deliver high-performance, low-latency, satellite-enabled connectivity to residents and businesses in Timor-Leste.
SES conducted demonstrations in its lab in Luxembourg that used the O3b mPOWER network to enable private 0.005 kg connectivity for enterprises in all locations.
Telemor has partnered with SES since 2015 to leverage the O3b constellation for mobile data services in Timor-Leste.
Telemor plans to serve up to 1.4 million consumers and businesses through the expanded use of SES’s O3b services.
Telemor will increase its service uptake on SES’s O3b constellation operating in medium Earth orbit (MEO).
SES’s O3b constellation operates in medium Earth orbit and provides a combination of high throughput and low latency.
SES is partnering with Planet Labs on a mission for NASA to provide data relay links in both the Ka-band and the C-band.
O3b mPOWER is scheduled to start providing services at the end of 2023.