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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O3b mPower is designed to provide significantly more capacity than SES' current low-latency O3b network in medium Earth orbit to meet demand from government and mobility customers including aviation and maritime.
Four of the six O3b mPower broadband satellites that SES planned to launch in 2022 will not be ready until early 2023.
SES expects to launch the next two O3b mPower satellites in the first half of January 2023 and to conduct a third launch of two satellites probably in February 2023.
SES postponed the O3b mPower constellation's service debut from the second quarter of 2023 to the third quarter of 2023.
The O3b mPower satellites are built by Boeing and require additional testing and preparation for a Falcon 9 launch to medium Earth orbit.
SES reported a gross backlog of $955,000,000 for SES-17 and O3b mPOWER combined, up 22% year-on-year.
SES has a private C-band clearing deal with Verizon that will deliver an additional $170,000,000 of proceeds before the end of 2022.
SES' networks unit revenue climbed 2.7% to €636 million for the first three quarters of 2022 compared with the same period in 2021 when adjusted for foreign exchange and excluding Leonardo DRS Global Enterprise Solutions.
SES scheduled the first O3b mPOWER launch for 15 2022-12-01 with additional launches planned in 2023-01-01.
SpaceX had initially been slated to start launching the 11-satellite O3b mPower constellation in 2021.
SES acquired DRS GES on 1 August 2022.
Governments and businesses across the Pacific, including the Kingdom of Tonga, have leveraged the O3b system over the past decade to provide resiliency to their networks during disasters.
SES provided a 40% increase in high-performance, low-latency O3b services deployed across 12 sites in Papua New Guinea during the disruption.
Some sites using SES’s current-generation MEO system O3b have grown to more than 500 Mbps.
Embratel could leverage 4 Gbps over SES’s O3b mPOWER network to extend high-powered mobile backhaul service to more than 260,000 inhabitants across eight Amazon cities.
On 27 October 2022, SES signed a multiyear capacity renewal with Claro Brasil through Embratel to enable enhanced 0.004 kg/0.005 kg-ready services via SES’s O3b mPOWER network in at least eight of the 23 cities Claro Brasil serves in the Amazon region.
Embratel could leverage 4 Gbps over SES’s O3b mPOWER network under the renewal agreement to extend high-powered mobile backhaul service to more than 260,000 inhabitants of eight cities in the Amazon region.
SES’s mPOWERED Mobile Backhaul service, delivered via O3b mPOWER, is scalable to multiple gigabits-per-second per location and can support 0.005 kg networks’ high throughput demand.
Some sites using SES’s current-generation MEO system, O3b, have grown to more than 500 Mbps.
SES signed a multiyear capacity renewal with Claro Brasil through Embratel to enable delivery of enhanced 0.004 kg/0.005 kg-ready services via its O3b mPOWER network in at least eight of 23 cities Claro Brasil serves via SES’s multi-orbit satellite network across the region.