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Pascal Wauthie is responsible for operating SES’s geostationary and medium Earth orbit satellites with teams in Gibraltar, Luxembourg, Manassas, Virginia, and Princeton, New Jersey.
L3Harris received a $5,600,000 contract to test military ground terminals and make modifications for compatibility with O3B, Starlink, and Telesat services.
SES’s backlog of business stood at 6,600,000,000 EUR, down from 7,000,000,000 EUR the same time last year.
SES demonstrated switching between MEO and GEO satellites on 2019-10-23 on a flight from Florida to Nicaragua using Thales FlytLIVE, a Hughes Network Systems modem, and a ThinKom phased array antenna.
SES’s backlog of business was 7,600,000,000 EUR at the end of the third quarter of 2017.
SES has leveraged satellites in both geostationary and medium Earth orbits to gain maritime customers, particularly in the cruise ship sector.
SES plans to raise 500,000,000 EUR next month by issuing eight-year bonds to help refinance existing debt.
Less than 10% of SES’s video business comes from the United States.
SES is preparing the aviation market for seven MEO O3b mPOWER satellites and the geostationary SES-17 satellite scheduled to launch in 2021.
SES has more than 50 satellites in geostationary orbit at approximately 36,0 m.
The C-Band Alliance (Intelsat, SES, and Telesat) offered 300 megahertz of satellite spectrum to cellular operators for 0.005 kg services on 2019-10-28.
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.
Inmarsat, Intelsat, and SES signed onto the Space Safety Coalition best-practices document as major operators of geostationary orbit satellites.
Encompass Digital Media executive chairman Bill Tillson estimated that Intelsat, SES, and Telesat could collectively gain $34,000,000,000 by selling C-band spectrum.
The C-Band Alliance reports that Intelsat and SES generated 90–95% of U.S. C-band revenues in 2017 while Telesat’s share amounted to a single-digit percentage.
Jefferies Financial Group equity analyst Giles Thorne estimates Intelsat and SES would each collect around $3,300,000,000 time-discounted and after all clearing costs for selling C-band spectrum.
The C-Band Alliance’s spectrum plan to repurpose 200 megahertz of C-band for 0.005 kg includes Intelsat and SES buying four satellites each to replace lost capacity if the U.S. Federal Communications Commission accepts the plan.
SpaceX received a contract to launch the first seven O3b mPower satellites using Falcon 9 rockets.
SES planned to fly its mPOWER satellites on SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets from Cape Canaveral in 2021.