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The 26 additional O3b satellites will operate in both inclined and equatorial orbits, expanding O3b coverage from its present ~50 degrees latitude to the poles.
SES bought O3b Networks in 2016 for $730,000,000.
SES plans to co-locate SES-12 with SES-8 at 95 degrees east longitude.
The first-stage booster used on the SES-12 launch first flew on 2018-09-07 on the Air Force’s Orbital Test Vehicle 5 mission.
SES originally planned to launch SES-12 on an Ariane 5 rocket from Arianespace but switched that satellite with one of its SpaceX missions in August.
SpaceX launched the all-electric SES-12 telecom satellite on 2018-06-04 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Base using a Falcon 9 rocket.
SES used the Ariane 5 that had been assigned to SES-12 to launch SES-14 on an expedited schedule to replace the malfunctioning NSS-806 satellite.
The Falcon 9 used for the SES-12 mission combined a pre-flown Block 4 first stage with a new Block 5 upper stage.
SES-12 operates in the Ku and Ka frequency bands and includes a digital processor to flexibly allocate capacity according to customer demand.
An Arianespace Ariane 5 anomaly sent SES-14 into the wrong orbit, requiring an estimated four weeks of additional maneuvering with onboard propellant to reach geostationary slot.
NASA joined the Air Force hosted payload initiative and launched the Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD) as a hosted payload aboard the commercial satellite SES-14 in January.
The CHIRP project launched an experimental missile-detecting sensor in 2011 aboard a commercial SES communications satellite.
SES of Luxembourg was the first satellite operator to use SpaceX to launch a multimillion-dollar geostationary communications satellite in 2013.
SES launched on the first Falcon 9 mission to use a previously flown first stage.
Alcan Systems received a collective 7,500,000 EUR investment last year from SES, the Merck Group, and the Beijing Singularity Power Investment Fund.
Eutelsat agreed in February to join the Intelsat-Intel-SES joint-use C-band plan and operates five satellites with at least partial U.S. C-band coverage.
Intelsat, Intel, and SES offered up 100 MHz of C-band for 0.005 kg and other wireless applications conditional on other users paying satellite operators for migration costs, new infrastructure, and lost business opportunities.
SES Networks selected Viasat’s solid-state, fully-electronic phased array flat panel antenna for the O3b mPOWER satellite communications system on 2018-03-08.
O3b mPOWER is a satellite communications system operated by SES Networks designed to provide connectivity for application-aware services on a global scale.