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SES, Google, and HSBC became investors in O3B Networks in 2009 and O3B Networks raised over $1,200,000,000.
Greg Wyler founded O3B Networks in 2007 in partnership with Liberty Global to unlock medium Earth orbit to deliver Internet to remote areas without the need for laying fiber.
By 2016 O3B Networks had a firm backlog of $350,000,000 and more than $100,000,000 in current-year revenue, and SES exercised its option to purchase the company.
SES expects to start deploying the O3b mPOWER medium Earth orbit constellation in 2022.
SES will use SkyEdge IV simultaneously for both the SES-17 geostationary satellite and its second-generation NGSO constellation O3b mPOWER.
SES will use the SkyEdge IV multi-service platform to deliver cellular-backhaul, enterprise services, and maritime services.
Gilat’s SkyEdge IV is a multi-orbit platform designed to interface and smoothly integrate with non-geostationary constellations and geostationary VHTS such as SES-17.
SES selected Gilat’s SkyEdge IV platform to operate with its SES-17 satellite.
SES operates the O3b network of MEO satellites and plans to launch the mPOWER series of satellites in 2022.
SES provides multi-orbit satellite capacity into key Pacific markets and partnered with Digicel to enable the first communication services out of Tonga.
The acquisition of O3b Networks added a layer of medium Earth orbit (MEO) satellites to SES’s existing geostationary orbit constellation.
SES is absorbing its SES Networks business unit ahead of deploying its next-generation O3b mPOWER broadband constellation in 2022.
Boeing is building 11 O3b mPOWER satellites to upgrade SES’s MEO constellation with significantly faster broadband speeds.
SES contracted SpaceX to launch the O3b mPOWER constellation on a total of four Falcon 9 rockets.
The first three O3b mPOWER satellites were originally slated to launch together on a Falcon 9 at the end of 2021 but the schedule was shifted to the first or second quarter of 2022.
SES recorded 533,000,000 EUR in underlying revenue for its networks business for the year to 2021-09-30, which was flat year-over-year.
The legal action filed by SES against Intelsat over the division of FCC C-band incentive payments is scheduled to begin on 2022-02-07 and has been allocated two weeks.
Counsel for the litigants in the SES v. Intelsat C-band dispute can file supplementary depositions on or before 2022-01-10, with counter-depositions to be filed by 2022-01-18.
The parties in the SES v. Intelsat C-band dispute will file an agreed position on admissible exhibits by 2022-01-28.
SES's claim in the C-band dispute is that the Consortium Agreement between C-Band Alliance participants provided for FCC incentive payments to be split 50/50 between SES and Intelsat.