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SES has an unsecured claim against Speedcast International for $7,700,000.
In 2017, EchoStar and SES lost contact with ailing satellites and were able to restore contact and retire those satellites into graveyard orbit.
SES operates around 50 geostationary satellites and 20 satellites in medium Earth orbit.
SES and Isotropic planned on 2020-03-05 to conduct tests in 2020 of Isotropic Systems’ software-defined terminals with SES O3b satellites.
Intelsat, SES, Eutelsat, Telesat, and Embratel Star One are collectively eligible to win up to $9,700,000,000 in accelerated payments if they clear 300 megahertz of C-band spectrum by 2023-12-05.
The FCC will scrap a $9,700,000,000 spectrum clearing incentive package approved last week if Intelsat and SES do not both agree to the terms.
The FCC reduced SES’s and Telesat’s accelerated clearing payment amounts to provide modest increases to Paris-based Eutelsat Communications and Brazilian operator Embratel Star One.
SES is eligible for 41% of the $9,700,000,000 accelerated clearing payments, equal to $3,970,000,000 after a $23,700,000 reduction.
SES decided not to send its employees to Satellite 2020 and related events and will have only Chief Executive Steve Collar attend to fulfill speaking engagements.
SES’s Networks business includes the 20-satellite O3b constellation in medium Earth orbit and several of SES’s approximately 50 geostationary satellites.
The SES-17 geostationary satellite ordered from Thales Alenia Space is slated to launch on an Ariane 5 rocket.
SES has three launches planned for 2021 in support of its Networks business.
SES’s Video business represented 61.6% of total revenues in 2019 and generated 1,210,000,000 EUR, a decrease of 7.1% year-over-year.
SES is projecting full-year revenue for 2020 between 1.92 billion and 2,000,000,000 EUR and EBITDA between 1.15 billion and 1,210,000,000 EUR.
Seven satellites ordered from Boeing for the medium-Earth-orbit O3b mPower constellation are slated to launch on two SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets.
SES foresees spending 1,350,000,000 EUR in 2021, with the bulk allocated to major payments on its launch and satellite programs.
SES’s Networks business generated 38.4% of the company’s 1,980,000,000 EUR in 2019 revenue and grew by 9.5% year-over-year while the company’s total revenues decreased by 1.3%.
Eutelsat proposed reducing SES’s share to 22.1% ($2,150,000,000), Telesat’s share to 0.12% ($11,200,000), and Star One’s share to 0.03% ($2,700,000).
SES and Telesat released a joint letter on 2020-02-25 arguing that Intelsat’s justification for seeking more than a 50% share of the $9,700,000,000 is not valid.
Telesat and SES asked the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to reject Intelsat’s request for a larger share of $9,700,000,000 in incentive payments for C-band clearing.