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SES Space & Defense, the U.S. subsidiary of SES, is based in Reston, Virginia and provides services to the U.S. military.
SES’s satellites at the prime 19.2 degrees East orbital slot directly reach more than 17 million satellite TV homes in Germany.
SES has signed multi-year capacity agreements totaling more than €75 million in backlog with multiple German private and public broadcasters.
HIGH VIEW signed an extension with SES and has launched additional channels.
Luxembourg, 13 April 2023 marks the date when SES signed multi-year capacity agreements totalling more than €75 million in backlog with multiple German private and public broadcasters.
The first two of the 11 O3b mPower satellites Boeing is building for SES launched on a Falcon 9 in December.
SES’s satellites at the 19.2 degrees East orbital slot directly reach more than 17 million satellite TV homes in Germany.
SES requires six O3b mPower satellites in equatorial MEO to provide initial global services from the next-generation network.
SES selected the Boeing 702X bus to build its 11-satellite O3b mPower constellation in medium Earth orbit.
Each O3b mPower satellite offers roughly 10 times the throughput of the first-generation fleet of 20 O3b satellites built by Thales Alenia Space that SES currently operates in MEO.
HIGH VIEW signed an extension with SES and launched additional channels on SES capacity.
Each O3b mPower satellite is designed to provide up to 10 gigabits of throughput.
A second pair of O3b mPower satellites for upgrading SES’ medium Earth orbit broadband network is due to arrive at their SpaceX launchpad in Florida 2023-04-10.
The final three O3b mPower satellites are due to be launched on a single Falcon 9 mission in 2024 to complete the constellation.
SpaceX is slated to launch a fourth pair of O3b mPower satellites before the end of 2023.
The final three O3b mPower satellites are due to be launched on a single Falcon 9 mission in 2024 to complete the constellation.
O3b mPower satellites provide roughly 10 times more throughput per satellite than the first-generation 20 Thales Alenia Space-built O3b satellites that SES currently operates in medium Earth orbit.
SpaceX is slated to launch a fourth pair of O3b mPower satellites before the end of 2023.
The first two O3b mPOWER satellites launched in December 2022.
Boeing reduced bus module build times for O3b mPower by 50% and achieved a similar improvement for payload integration and testing operations.