SES has resurrected its ‘Cleosat’ filing with the ITU which lapsed in 2015. Cleosat calls for an L and S-band constellation of 62 satellites (6×10 @ 850km/86°, 1 @ 533km/97.5° […]
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SES: ‘FCC wants more C-band spectrum’
The post-results analysts call with SES senior management focused on two topics: The possibility of another C-band release of spectrum to the FCC and the state of the Intelsat $3.1 […]
Forrester’s Digest: SES: HQ will stay in Luxembourg
Satellite operator SES will this year celebrate its 40th Anniversary. CEO Adel Al-Saleh has been doing the rounds with local Luxembourg press and TV to update citizens of progress at […]
Vodafone, AST test video call game changer
Last week a Vodafone engineer, Rowan Chesmer, somewhere in the middle of Wales and very much in a dead zone for cellular connectivity, used an AST SpaceMobile satellite to send […]
Forrester’s Digest: SES buys back €100m of bonds
Satellite operator SES has bought back €100 million of its perpetual bonds of which €625 million were in issue. SES’s bonds dropped sharply in mid-January after the credit desk at […]
SES launches 7th and 8th O3b mPOWER satellites, stregthening MEO constellation
SES announced today that its latest pair of O3b mPOWER satellites was successfully launched into space by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, United States, […]
Forrester’s Digest: O3b satellites suffer launch delays
Two satellites owned by SES of Luxembourg have had their launch by SpaceX much delayed because of bad weather at Cape Canaveral. SES has stated that such weather delays are […]
Two additional nations to provide NATO SATCOM support
Starting next year, Spain and Luxembourg will join four other NATO nations that provide SATCOM services to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization as part of a satellite services project that began […]
Luxembourg DoD Partners with SES and HITEC to improve SATCOM ground infrastructure
The Luxembourg Directorate of Defence (DoD) procured two ground stations following a competitive call for tender to enable the Luxembourg Army to improve its resilience by accessing secure satellite communications […]
SES-led consortium for EAGLE-1 system welcomes TNO and Airbus to deliver optical ground station
The SES-led consortium of European companies, responsible for development of the quantum secure space-based EAGLE-1 system and working in close collaboration with the European Space Agency (ESA), is joined by TNO and Airbus […]