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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SpaceX’s agreement with SES includes capacity to launch one additional contingency satellite that has not yet been ordered.
Intelsat and SES have ordered 10 replacement C-band satellites ahead of the FCC’s auction from Boeing, Maxar, and Northrop Grumman.
Claro signed a contract with SES for capacity on the SES-4 satellite to continue service for a Florida customer currently using Claro’s Star One C1 satellite.
The four SES satellites ordered so far are scheduled to launch in the third quarter of 2022.
On 2020-06-16, SES contracted Boeing and Northrop Grumman to each build two geostationary communications satellites for C-band services in the United States.
SES will order six C-band satellites in the coming days or weeks and is eligible for $3,970,000,000 in accelerated clearing payments if it clears the spectrum by 2023-12-05.
SES is ordering signal filters for C-band customer antennas to prevent disruption of television broadcasts and other services from upcoming cellular 0.005 kg signals.
SES has seven O3b mPower satellites under construction with Boeing that are slated to launch in 2021 on two SpaceX Falcon 9 missions.
For its proposed third-generation O3b network, SES plans to operate 10 satellites in an equatorial MEO orbit and 24 satellites in inclined MEO orbits using a smaller platform.
SES operates 20 O3b satellites in medium Earth orbit at approximately 8,0 m above Earth.
SES indicated that FCC approvals the company received in 2018 enable it to triple the size of the O3b mPower fleet.
SES orders new satellites as soon as they are made public, and no SES satellite order announcement had been issued as of 2020-05-13 following Maxar’s announcement.
O3b mPOWER expands SES’s first-generation O3b MEO system capabilities to provide increased levels of customisation.
Isotropic Systems and SES entered a new developmental phase of their partnership in March 2020 to produce scalable, cost-effective multi-beam customer edge terminal antennas for the O3b mPOWER system.
SES contracted Isotropic Systems in 2018 to develop smart, high-throughput customer edge terminal solutions for the O3b mPOWER system.
O3b mPOWER is a fully funded, next-generation MEO satellite-based data communications system designed as a scalable terabit-level constellation supporting thousands of dynamic beams.
Viasat partnered with SES on medium-Earth-orbit services using the O3b constellation.
SES and Isotropic planned on 2020-03-05 to conduct tests in 2020 of Isotropic Systems’ software-defined terminals with SES O3b satellites.
SES’s Networks business includes the 20-satellite O3b constellation in medium Earth orbit and several of SES’s approximately 50 geostationary satellites.
Seven satellites ordered from Boeing for the medium-Earth-orbit O3b mPower constellation are slated to launch on two SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets.