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 purchased seven O3b mPower satellites from Boeing in 2018.
Eutelsat helped form the C-Band Alliance with Intelsat, SES, and Telesat in 2018 and quit the group in 2019 after disagreeing with its members.
Eutelsat proposed reducing SES’s share to 22.1% ($2,150,000,000), Telesat’s share to 0.12% ($11,200,000), and Embratel Star One’s share to 0.03% ($2,700,000).
SES operates 20 O3b-branded satellites in medium Earth orbit and about 50 satellites in the geosynchronous arc.
Mark Rigolle became chief executive of O3b Networks in 2010 and led O3b to a valuation of $1,430,000,000 before its acquisition by SES.
L3Harris received a $5,600,000 contract to test military ground terminals and make modifications for compatibility with O3B, Starlink, and Telesat services.
SES is preparing the aviation market for seven MEO O3b mPOWER satellites and the geostationary SES-17 satellite scheduled to launch in 2021.
The 702x small GEO bus is based on the O3b mPower satellite that Boeing is producing for SES’s medium-Earth orbit high-throughput constellation.
SES operates 20 O3b satellites in medium Earth orbits at about 8,0 m altitude in addition to a fleet of around 50 geosynchronous satellites.
The O3b mPower Ka-band satellites have a design life of 12 years and will use electric propulsion.
SpaceX received a contract to launch the first seven O3b mPower satellites using Falcon 9 rockets.
Boeing completed a successful critical design review for the O3b mPower satellites in the weeks before 2019-09-09.
SES’s planned first O3b mPower satellites were planned for launch in 2021 and weigh 1,800 kg each.
SES’s O3b mPower satellites have a 12-year design life and will use electric propulsion.
Boeing worked for two years on the seven-satellite O3b mPower system prior to developing the small GEO product.
SES Networks selected Isotropic Systems to develop optical beamforming antenna technology to deliver cost-effective high-performance capacity via SES’ O3b mPOWER constellation.
Inmarsat’s purchase of three high-capacity Ka-band satellites from Airbus was the largest satellite order industrywide since SES ordered seven O3b mPower medium-Earth orbit broadband satellites about a year and a half earlier.
SES plans to have the second-generation system known as O3b mPower in orbit in 2021 but has not selected a launch provider.
Arianespace completed SES’s first-generation O3b constellation on 2019-04-04 with a Soyuz launch of four satellites.
Thales Alenia Space built the Ka-band O3b satellites and each satellite carries 20 gigabits per second of throughput.