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 will lead a consortium of 20 companies to build and operate the Eagle-1 smallsat.
The European Space Agency and SES signed the contract for Eagle-1 during the International Astronautical Congress in Paris.
Mola and SES established a pre-existing relationship in 2017 to support demand in Indonesia for high-quality, uninterrupted live football coverage.
Since January 2020, SES has supported Mola in broadcasting nearly 6,000 events totaling more than 17,350 hours of signal acquisition and close to 3,000 hours of live insertion into Mola’s channels.
Mola and SES first established their relationship in 2017 to support demand in Indonesia for high-quality and uninterrupted live football coverage.
Since January 2020, SES has supported Mola in inserting close to 3,000 hours of live content into Mola’s channels.
O3b mPOWER is built according to Committee on National Security Systems (CNSS) Policy 12 and supports deployment of Government waveforms with TRANSEC via a waveform-agnostic design.
SES acquired DRS Global Enterprise Solutions to strengthen its position in serving the US Government market.
SES’s O3b satellite constellation was launched in 2013 and operates in Medium Earth Orbit at approximately 8,0 m altitude.
The agreement between Digicel and SES will have Digicel use SES’s O3b satellite system to deliver multiple gigabits per second of capacity for quick-deploy connectivity to Tonga.
SES’s O3b satellite constellation provides fibre-equivalent performance to governments and businesses around the Pacific.
SES’s O3b satellites orbit at approximately 8,0 m above the Earth in medium Earth orbit (MEO).
SES launched the O3b satellite constellation in 2013.
Digicel leveraged SES’s geostationary Earth orbit (GEO) satellite capacity to restore temporary connectivity in Tonga after the January 2022 disaster.
Microsoft is planning to deploy O3b and O3b mPOWER at Azure Network locations to provide network resiliency.
O3b MEO and O3b mPOWER provide latency and uncontended bandwidth intended to deliver resilience for mission-critical operations and the geographic reach to access cloud services from alternative data centres if an in-region data centre is impacted.
The SES O3b MEO connection delivered data throughput of 50 Mbps on both the forward and return paths and network latency of less than 185 milliseconds.
Digicel will use SES’s expertise in offering disaster resiliency via the SES O3b satellite constellation to deliver low-latency and high-throughput connectivity for Tonga.
SES’s O3b MEO technology enables Microsoft to provide dedicated bandwidth and infrastructure suitable for private 0.005 kg networks serving enterprises and institutional agencies with specific performance and security requirements.
SES’s second-generation MEO satellite communication system O3b mPOWER offers flexibility, high throughput, and scalability for providing resiliency to vulnerable communities in the Asia Pacific region.