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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Boeing partnered with SES to create a supercomputer constellation in space using the 702X platform, with SES as the platform’s first user.
Boeing is contracted to deliver 11 O3b mPOWER satellites to SES and is continuing production, integration, and testing of the remaining nine spacecraft.
Each O3b mPOWER satellite combines Boeing’s flight-proven 702 platform, Boeing subsidiary Spectrolab’s custom-designed solar arrays, and the 702X software-defined payload.
Spectrolab is a Boeing subsidiary that manufactured custom-designed solar arrays for the O3b mPOWER satellites built to withstand harsh MEO radiation.
SES Government Solutions will begin operating under the new name SES Space & Defense effective 2022-12-08.
The first stage of Vodafone Cook Islands’ O3b mPOWER field trial took place in March 2022 on Rarotonga island.
Since the beginning of 2022, Marlink and SES have collaborated on seven major energy projects across Africa to provide a full hybrid network solution leveraging SES’s O3b satellites.
SES Government Solutions began operating under the new name SES Space & Defense effective 2022-12-08.
SES acquired DRS Global Enterprise Solutions, a business unit of Leonardo DRS, for $450,000,000.
SES is preparing for the 2023 launch of its first Boeing-built O3b mPower broadband satellites.
SES’s O3b satellite system will be upgraded in 2023 to include SES’s second-generation MEO satellites, O3b mPOWER.
A framework agreement signed earlier in 2022 between Marlink and SES allows Marlink to leverage the O3b mPOWER satellite system to deliver uncontended committed information rates and guaranteed performance to customers in Africa and the Middle East for real-time cloud-based applications.
Each O3b mPOWER satellite combines Boeing’s 702 satellite platform, Spectrolab’s custom-designed solar arrays built to withstand MEO radiation, and the 702X software-defined payload.
Boeing is contracted to deliver 11 O3b mPOWER satellites to SES.
United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V rocket delivered SES-20 and SES-21 to a near-geosynchronous orbit.
SES’s Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) journey began in 2009 with investment in O3b Networks.
SES, e& (Etisalat), and Microsoft signed a tripartite agreement in the MENA region under which e& will host a co-located SES O3b mPOWER and Microsoft ground station to facilitate connectivity to the cloud.
O3b service enabled Orange to provide improved broadband to businesses and to boost secured mobile data and payment services across the Central African Republic.
O3b mPOWER will operate in Medium Earth Orbit at approximately 8,0 m above the Earth's surface.
O3b mPOWER will start launching 2022.