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 and Intelsat merged in 2024.
SES completed its acquisition of Intelsat in July.
SES has a partnership with Africa Mobile Networks.
Cailabs has partnered with SES to test its TILBA-OGS L10 stations at 10 Gbps bidirectional throughput.
SES's meoSphere will replace O3b mPOWER.
SES will pair its software-defined payloads developed and manufactured in Luxembourg with 28 high-power satellite platforms developed by K2 Space for the first phase of meoSphere.
AWS, Gilat Defense, and SES Space & Defense participated in a WAVE demonstration that connected a virtualized cloud platform to an SES gateway using digital IF.
SES will work with the WAVE Consortium to incorporate additional waveforms including 5G NTN, Digital Sequence Spread Spectrum, and 6G.
SES has an ongoing relationship with SWISSto12 for antenna design and buys SWISSto12’s HummingSat line of smaller satellites.
SES ordered 28 meoSphere satellites from K2 Space at the Washington, DC Satellite Show.
K2 Space will supply the main body buses for SES’s meoSphere satellites, and SES will supply the payloads.
The ALL.SPACE terminal and the O3b mPOWER network are incorporated into multiple government and defense Programs of Record.
ALL.SPACE collaborated with SES on a terminal capability for government and defense missions.
The first multi-orbit next-generation tactical terminal capability on the SES O3b mPOWER network has been certified.
The certification enables Sovereign services over O3b mPOWER and is part of the MEO Global Services contract.
The ALL.SPACE antenna solution is the first ESA-certified terminal for use on the O3b mPOWER network.
SES provides ground infrastructure for the Lynk-Omnispace direct-to-device service.
SES’s meoSphere initiative begins with an order for an initial 28 high-power satellite platforms from K2 Space.
SES will integrate software-defined payloads developed and manufactured in Luxembourg onto K2 Space’s Mega-class buses for meoSphere.
SES became a strategic shareholder in Lynk through an investment made one year before the merger with Omnispace was announced.