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SES has seven O3b mPower satellites under construction with Boeing that are slated to launch in 2021 on two SpaceX Falcon 9 missions.
The proposed SES LEO constellation would use radio-frequency links to transmit to satellites in medium Earth orbit and geostationary orbit.
SES’s FCC filing was submitted in response to an FCC call for information from satellite operators aiming to provide U.S. communications services with non-geosynchronous constellations in certain Ku- and Ka-band frequencies.
If deployed, SES’s LEO IoT constellation would follow veteran GEO operators Eutelsat and EchoStar in developing LEO IoT services.
SES’s proposed LEO constellation would operate in a 507-kilometer orbit and use Ka-band frequencies.
SES proposed a low Earth orbit constellation to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission on 2020-05-26 to seek U.S. market access for that system.
SES formally notified the U.S. Federal Communications Commission on 2020-05-26 that it will participate in the FCC’s $9,700,000,000 accelerated C-band spectrum clearing program.
SES estimates it will need to spend $1,600,000,000 on new satellites, launches, and ground infrastructure to clear 300 megahertz of spectrum by December 2023.
The FCC required both Intelsat and SES to commit to participation before commencing the accelerated clearing program.
SES is eligible to receive $3,970,000,000 of the FCC’s accelerated clearing funds.
The FCC voted on 2020-02-28 to proceed with an auction plan that covers spectrum relocation costs for Intelsat, SES, Eutelsat, Telesat, and Embratel Star One.
Intelsat and SES are positioned to receive the largest shares of the $15,000,000,000 opportunity from the FCC’s C-band auction plan.
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.
Intelsat and SES previously said they planned to order C-band replacement satellites from U.S. manufacturers.
Intelsat and SES, working with Eutelsat and Telesat as the C-Band Alliance in 2018, said they would need eight new satellites combined to cede 200 megahertz of spectrum.
The FCC gave Intelsat and SES until the 2020-05-31 to confirm their intent to participate in the incentive plan for accelerated C-band clearing payments.
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 expands SES’s first-generation O3b MEO system capabilities to provide increased levels of customisation.
Viasat partnered with SES on medium-Earth-orbit services using the O3b constellation.