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e& Carrier and Wholesale Services partnered with Microsoft and SES to host a co-located SES O3b mPOWER and Microsoft ground station at Ras Al Khaimah.
O3b mPOWER is designed to deliver multiple gigabits-per-second of data services to customers in remote and underserved regions across the Middle East, Central Asia, and beyond.
SES’s O3b mPOWER MEO constellation aims to deliver connectivity speeds from tens of megabits to multiple gigabits per second to a single site.
SES obtained spectrum rights for 62 proposed satellites that operate between 8 and 519 km after a call for proposals from Luxembourg.
SES operates 20 broadband satellites in medium Earth orbit at 8,63 km.
SES operates a fleet of satellites in geostationary orbit for broadband and broadcast services.
Karim Michel Sabbagh was CEO of SES and left SES in April 2018 after four years with the Luxembourg-based satellite operator to head Abu Dhabi-based cybersecurity company DarkMatter.
SES CEO Steve Collar expects SpaceX will launch its final two C-band satellites late in 2022 or early in 2023.
SES took an initial stake in O3b in 2009 and took full ownership of O3b in 2016 during Karim Michel Sabbagh’s tenure as CEO of SES.
SES stands to receive nearly $4,000,000,000 from the Federal Communications Commission if it clears its C-band spectrum in time.
By the end of 2022 Intelsat will have launched more C-band replacement satellites than SES.
SES launched the SES-20 and SES-21 satellites on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
The launches of SES-20 and SES-21 are part of an FCC program to clear a portion of the C-band spectrum to enable wireless operators to deploy 0.005 kg services across the contiguous United States.
The Atlas V delivered SES-20 and SES-21 to a near-geosynchronous orbit approximately 22,483 km (35,888 km) above the equator.
SES-22 was the first C-band satellite launched for SES’s U.S. C-band clearing effort on 2022-06-29.
SES-20 and SES-21 are the second and third C-band satellites that SES has launched as part of its effort to free up the lower 300 MHz of the C-band spectrum across the United States by December 2023 while maintaining uninterrupted services.
SES-20 and SES-21 are C-band satellites that will enable SES to continue delivering TV and radio to millions of American homes and provide other network communications services.
SES launched SES-22 in June as part of its C-band clearing program.
SES-20 and SES-21 are the second and third C-band satellites that SES has launched as part of its effort to free up the lower 300 MHz of C-band spectrum across the U.S. by December 2023.
Satellite operators such as SES are required to transition existing services from the lower 300 MHz to the upper 200 MHz of C-band spectrum to make room for 0.005 kg.