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O3b mPOWER is designed to provide terabit-level scale and roundtrip latency of less than 150 milliseconds.
SES has been using its MEO network to provide connectivity for markets including mobile backhaul, aviation, maritime, and government.
The first two O3b mPOWER satellites launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, on 2022-12-16 at 5:48 PM ET.
The Boeing-built O3b mPower satellites use onboard all-electric propulsion and will take about five months to reach their orbital positions.
SpaceX delayed a planned Starlink Falcon 9 launch from Kennedy Space Center on 2022-12-16 to 2022-12-17 to prioritize the O3b mPower satellite launch.
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.
On 16 December 2022 in Luxembourg SES signed an agreement with Vodafone Cook Islands to provide O3b mPOWER services.
SES operates 20 first-generation O3b satellites in medium Earth orbit (MEO).
SES expects about 50% of O3b mPower’s capacity to serve government customers, including the U.S. national security market.
The initial O3b mPOWER ecosystem comprises 11 satellites, each equipped with more than 5,000 digitally formed beams.
The ICT Portal uses a holistic and vendor agnostic approach, similar to the SES Space & Defense ICT Ecosystem.
SES Space & Defense announced the Information & Communications Technology (ICT) Portal in Reston, Virginia on 2022-12-13.
SES Space & Defense announced their new Common Operational Picture capability, the Information & Communications Technology Portal.
The 10.972-ton delivery to geostationary orbit was Ariane 5’s second-highest performance after the October 2021 launch of Syracuse A4 and SES-17.
SES acquired DRS Global Enterprise Solutions for $450,000,000.
Boeing is contracted to deliver 11 O3b mPOWER satellites to SES and is continuing production, integration, and testing of the remaining nine spacecraft.
Each O3b mPOWER satellite combines Boeing’s flight-proven 702 platform, Boeing subsidiary Spectrolab’s custom-designed solar arrays, and the 702X software-defined payload.
Spectrolab is a Boeing subsidiary that manufactured custom-designed solar arrays for the O3b mPOWER satellites built to withstand harsh MEO radiation.
Boeing partnered with SES to create a supercomputer constellation in space using the 702X platform, with SES as the platform’s first user.
The Falcon 9 first stage booster that supported HAKUTO-R Mission 1 previously launched the SES-22 mission and three Starlink missions.