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SES-4 at 22 degrees West will be used for distribution of the CANAL+ Afrique bouquet across Africa.
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.
Intelsat and SES ordered a total of 13 new C-band satellites in summer 2020, 11 of which will be built in the United States.
Intelsat rejected a $1,800,000,000 claim filed by SES regarding the breakup of the C-Band Alliance and asserted that SES’s action cost Intelsat more than $1,600,000,000 in potential C-band clearing payments.
The FCC order for the C-band clearing process provided SES with $3,970,000,000 in accelerated relocation payments.
SES sought $450,000,000 in payments to ensure a 50-50 split between SES and Intelsat and also sought compensatory and punitive damages in its claim.
Intelsat believes SES derived the $1,800,000,000 claim by taking the $450,000,000 compensatory amount and tripling it.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
Isotropic Systems’ trials will take place at an SES teleport and a U.S. Army base in Reading/Reston on 24 September 2020.
The O3b mPOWER MEO constellation and the SES-17 GEO satellite were scheduled to launch in late 2021.
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.
Intelsat and SES expect to receive billions of dollars in incentive payments to clear C-band spectrum by December 2023 and signed manufacturing and launch deals in 2020 to place new capacity in orbit ahead of that deadline.
The reimbursable nature of the C-band replacement satellites led Intelsat and SES to procure 11 of the 13 satellites from U.S. manufacturers.
Intelsat and SES each expect to spend around $1,700,000,000 on manufacturing, launch services and ground infrastructure for their C-band replacement satellites.
Galaxy-37 is the last of 13 satellites ordered between Intelsat and SES to consolidate North American broadcast customers and free up 300 megahertz of C-band spectrum.