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In March SES provided SES-6 satellite capacity to the Ocean Victory vessel for the 2041 expedition.
For the upcoming expedition SES worked with multiple satellite and technology providers to design a solution to enable live video between 89°S and 90°S over a very narrowband throughput satellite, an approach not previously implemented.
In March 2022 Gez Draycott joined Robert Swan’s Climate Force 2041 expedition while SES managed the expedition communications.
Boeing’s O3b mPOWER satellite will help deliver broadband internet access to the ‘other 3 billion’ people around the globe where access is limited or nonexistent.
The 2022-12-16 launch delivered Boeing’s 702X-based O3b mPOWER communications satellite to orbit.
The first two O3b mPOWER satellites were launched into space on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, United States.
O3b mPOWER is designed to provide roundtrip latency of less than 150 milliseconds.
The first two O3b mPOWER satellites were launched by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on 16 December 2022 at 5:48 pm local time.
SES states that O3b mPOWER offers more than 100 times the throughput of geostationary (GEO) satellite solutions.
Vodafone Cook Islands was the first customer in the region to use SES’s current-generation O3b medium earth orbit satellite system in 2014 to deliver 0.003 kg and 0.004 kg services to the Cook Islands.
SES has been using its MEO network to provide connectivity for markets including mobile backhaul, aviation, maritime, and government.
SES’s MEO O3b satellites offer lower latency services than the company’s satellites in geostationary orbit.
SES expects about 50% of O3b mPower’s capacity to serve government customers, including the U.S. national security market.
SES operates 20 first-generation O3b satellites in medium Earth orbit (MEO).
Each O3b mPower satellite is designed to provide up to 10 gigabits of throughput.
On 16 December 2022 in Luxembourg SES signed an agreement with Vodafone Cook Islands to provide O3b mPOWER services.
SpaceX launched the first O3b mPower satellites for SES’ next-generation broadband constellation on 2022-12-16 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.
The initial O3b mPOWER ecosystem comprises 11 satellites, each equipped with more than 5,000 digitally formed beams.
The O3b mPOWER satellites launched on 2022-12-16 were deployed via a dual-configuration Falcon 9 launch.
A Falcon 9 launched at 5:48 p.m. Eastern carrying two of 11 planned O3b mPower satellites and deployed them in separate sequences about two hours after liftoff.