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’s O3b Networks constellation comprises 20 medium-Earth-orbit satellites operating at 8,63 km over the equator and using 17-19 GHz frequencies for high-speed broadband services to mainly enterprise and government customers.
NASA’s Communications Services Project awarded SES Government Solutions nearly $29,000,000 through a Funded Space Act Agreement to demonstrate commercial radio frequency GEO C-band and MEO Ka-band relay networks for SATCOM services to spacecraft in low Earth orbit.
SES Government Solutions and Planet Labs will develop a real-time, always-on, low-latency connectivity solution enabled by SES’s GEO and MEO constellations, including O3b mPOWER, to support NASA missions.
Under the Funded Space Act Agreement, SES Government Solutions will complete technology development and in-space demonstrations by 2025.
The agreement between SES and ESA succeeds PACIS-1, which resulted in the development of SES’s REACH platform comprising geostationary satellites for governments and institutions.
The new agreement will integrate non-geostationary MEO satellites into the REACH platform, enabling higher performance through SES’s O3b constellation and the upcoming O3b mPOWER system.
SES and SpaceX are planning to deploy six O3b mPower satellites across three SpaceX launches between July and September 2022.
SES was awarded a framework contract by the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) to provide, through REACH, a SATCOM service in Ku-band, Ka-band, and military-Ka-band and a ground segment for RPAS connectivity across multiple coastal regions of the European Union.
SES-17 is a newly launched SES satellite that provides Ka-band capacity.
AMC-18 is an SES satellite providing C-Band capacity that connects all 25 communities in Nunavut.
SSi Canada and SES signed a partnership to expand broadband capacity across Northern Canada, including Nunavut.
SES Networks will provide backbone capacity to support and improve QINIQ broadband and SSi Mobile phone services throughout Nunavut.
SES is operating fully-digital satellites including SES-17 and the O3b mPOWER 2Gen MEO constellation.
SES Government Solutions won a $28,960,000 CSP award to demonstrate services using a mix of GEO satellites and constellations in LEO and MEO.
SES Government Solutions of Reston, Virginia, received a $28,960,000 CSP award to demonstrate commercial RF geostationary C-band and medium-Earth-orbit Ka-band relay networks for high- and low-rate SATCOM services.
SES announced a joint venture with Indian telco Reliance Jio valued at more than $100,000,000 to expand in India and include access to O3b mPower.
The 14 satellites SES expects to deploy in 2022 include the first three satellites for the O3b mPower next-generation MEO constellation.
SpaceX planned to start launching 11 Boeing-built O3b mPower satellites in 2021, then in the first quarter of 2022, before a delay pushed the first batch into the second quarter of 2022.
SES’s Cloud Direct service will be available on the next-generation MEO constellation O3b mPOWER launching 2022.
SES operates the O3b fleet of satellites in medium Earth orbit that will be augmented by up to 11 mPOWER satellites launching starting later 2022.