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SES Selects SpaceX To Launch The Four, Freshly-Ordered, O3b mPOWER Satellites

August 20, 2020

SES has selected SpaceX as a launch partner to deliver the four, newly-ordered, O3b mPOWER spacecraft of the company’s next-generation Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) communications system.

Just like the initial seven O3b mPOWER satellites procured, these additional four satellites will be launched into space on board Falcon 9 rockets from Cape Canaveral. A total of four Falcon 9 rockets will be used to support the deployment of all O3b mPOWER satellites.

SES’s O3b mPOWER, fully-funded, communications system is comprised of 11 high-throughput and low-latency satellites, as well as an automated and intelligence-powered ground infrastructure. Built by Boeing, each satellite will generate thousands of dynamic beams and can deliver connectivity services ranging from 50 Mbps to multiple gigabits per second to telecommunications, maritime, aeronautical, and energy, as well as governments and institutions across the world.

SES has previously announced Orange and Carnival Cruises its first O3b mPOWER customers. O3b mPOWER is built on the proven track record of the company’s current O3b constellation of 20 MEO satellites. Today, the O3b system is delivering high-performance communications services to customers operating in nearly 50 countries.

Executive Comments

Tom Ochinero

“SES’s selection of SpaceX to support launch of the full O3b mPOWER constellation is a testament to our deep partnership built over the past decade,” said SpaceX Vice President of Commercial Sales, Tom Ochinero. “We look forward to working with SES to make history again through the successful deployment of this new system.”

Steve Collar

“O3b mPOWER is the cornerstone of our multi-orbit, cloud-enabled, high-performance network that will serve our enterprise, mobility and government customers into the next decade, and we are merely a year away from its first launch,” said Steve Collar, CEO of SES. “We have a strong and long-standing partnership with SpaceX and we are excited to add the launches of additional O3b mPOWER satellites that will drive higher throughput, greater efficiency and substantially more bandwidth to our industry-leading network.”

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