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SES is preparing for the 2023 launch of its first Boeing-built O3b mPower broadband satellites.
SES’s O3b satellite system will be upgraded in 2023 to include SES’s second-generation MEO satellites, O3b mPOWER.
SES Government Solutions began operating under the new name SES Space & Defense effective 2022-12-08.
SES operates a commercial fleet of more than 70 geosynchronous and medium Earth orbit satellites.
The first stage of Vodafone Cook Islands’ O3b mPOWER field trial took place in March 2022 on Rarotonga island.
SES Government Solutions will begin operating under the new name SES Space & Defense effective 2022-12-08.
SES acquired DRS Global Enterprise Solutions, a business unit of Leonardo DRS, for $450,000,000.
SES consolidated two organizations serving U.S. Government satellite communications needs in August 2022.
A framework agreement signed earlier in 2022 between Marlink and SES allows Marlink to leverage the O3b mPOWER satellite system to deliver uncontended committed information rates and guaranteed performance to customers in Africa and the Middle East for real-time cloud-based applications.
Since the beginning of 2022, Marlink and SES have collaborated on seven major energy projects across Africa to provide a full hybrid network solution leveraging SES’s O3b satellites.
SES-17 operates in geostationary orbit at 67 degrees West longitude.
ARSAT will use SES’s high-performance geostationary satellite SES-17 to deliver high-quality connectivity services.
ARSAT will provide reliable broadband satellite services starting in mid-2022 under the agreement with SES.
United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V rocket delivered SES-20 and SES-21 to a near-geosynchronous orbit, enabling rapid commissioning of SES-21.
Satellite operators, including SES, were tasked by the FCC to clear the lower 300 MHz of C-band spectrum throughout the contiguous United States by December 2023.
SES-21 launched on 2022-10-04.
SES-21 will enable SES to continue delivering C-band broadcast and radio services to millions of American homes and to provide other critical network communications services to the United States.
SES-20 and SES-21 are all-electric 702SP satellites manufactured and assembled in Los Angeles by Boeing.
Boeing is contracted to deliver 11 O3b mPOWER satellites to SES.
SES deploys two uplink trucks for AEW events: one carrying a C-band antenna for domestic US distribution and another carrying a Ku-band antenna for US backup and international distribution.