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 is working with Kythera Space Solutions to develop a software solution that interacts across the space and ground network ecosystem.
ARC works with SES’s SD-WAN solution to support multi-orbit data path alternatives for resiliency.
SES will apply the Adaptive Resource Control (ARC) to digitized payloads used on the O3b mPOWER Medium Earth Orbit satellite system and the SES-17 Geostationary HTS satellite.
ARC manages the complete map of services provisioned by the O3b mPOWER MEO constellation and the SES-17 HTS GEO satellite.
Viasat expected the first phased array prototype for the O3b mPOWER network to be delivered to SES in early 2021.
Amir Yafe, Head of Global Accounts at Gilat, values the partnership with SES and supports expanding collaboration to bring high-end modems to O3b mPOWER’s market segments.
O3b mPOWER’s high-throughput satellites and automated, intelligence-powered ground infrastructure will deliver managed services from hundreds of Mbps up to multiple Gbps.
SES selected Gilat and ST Engineering iDirect as technology partners to develop the core infrastructure modem platforms for O3b mPOWER.
The agreements between SES and CANAL+ are intended to deliver satellite-distributed premium content to more than 10 million subscribers.
CANAL+ will continue to use SES satellite capacity to broadcast channel bouquets in ultra high definition (UHD), high definition (HD), and standard definition (SD) to reach over 10 million TV households.
ASTRA’s orbital positions at 23.5 degrees East and 19.2 degrees East will be used to distribute content for M7, CANAL+’s Luxembourg-based subsidiary operating pay-TV platforms across the Benelux and Central Europe.
SES-4 at 22 degrees West will be used for distribution of the CANAL+ Afrique bouquet across Africa.
The contract enables SES to support CANAL+ in broadcasting its channel bouquets via orbital positions 19.2 degrees East, 23.5 degrees East, and 22 degrees West.
On 2020-10-20, Microsoft expanded its cloud computing services for the space industry to include mobile cloud computing data centers that can be deployed anywhere and connect to SpaceX’s Starlink and SES’ O3b internet satellites.
SES Networks is building antennas for its new O3b broadband constellations near Microsoft Azure cloud sites around the world to establish permanent ties with Azure.
Hemeria supplied subsystems for the O3b and Iridium Next constellations prior to moving into complete satellite manufacturing in 2017 with support from the French space agency CNES.
The U.S. Army plans to evaluate the performance of Isotropic Systems optical beam-forming antennas for sending communications through SES satellites in geostationary and medium Earth orbit under a contract of undisclosed value announced 2020-09-24.
Phase two will use Isotropic Systems’ optical lens technology to demonstrate a two full-performance-beam connection, with one beam linking to an SES geostationary (GEO) satellite and one beam linking to SES’s O3b MEO satellite constellation.
SES Government Solutions and Isotropic Systems signed a two-phased antenna evaluation contract with the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory in collaboration with the U.S. Army Research Engineering Team to test Isotropic Systems’ multi-beam terminal over SES’s O3b MEO constellation.
In a second phase of testing scheduled to begin in early 2021, the Air Force and Army plan to evaluate whether Isotropic Systems antennas can connect simultaneously with an SES geostationary satellite and an SES O3b satellite in medium Earth orbit.