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SES S.A. announces it has repurchased in the open market an aggregate amount of €99,978,000 principal amount of its €625,000,000 Deeply Subordinated Fixed Rate Resettable Securities issued on 27 May 2021. In accordance with the terms and conditions of the Securities, the purchased Securities will be cancelled. Following these transactions, the outstanding principal amount of the Securities is €525,022,000. Payment in relation to the Securities will be made in accordance with the usual...

SES announced today that ASTRA 1P , the company's most advanced satellite positioned at 19.2 degrees East, has completed comprehensive testing and is now fully operational. Following its successful in-orbit raising and performance testing, ASTRA 1P will now start serving public and private broadcasters, sports organisations and content owners, achieving another milestone in SES’s commitment to delivering high-quality broadcast services to the widest audience possible. ASTRA 1P is SES’s most...

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, at 5:26 pm local time. Both satellites will join the first six O3b mPOWER spacecraft already in operation at medium Earth orbit (MEO), adding incremental capacity to the initial O3b mPOWER constellation. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here:...

Regulatory News: For the purpose of the publication required by article 13 of the law of 11 January 2008 on transparency requirements for Issuers, following the purchase of outstanding 5.5 million B-shares on 10 December 2024 within the share buyback program, SES now directly and indirectly holds 7.15% of the voting rights in SES. Such voting rights are however not exercised. The shares acquired will be cancelled after the expiry of one year, which will reduce the total number of voting and...

SES S.A. announces that the SpaceRISE consortium, led by SES, has signed the Concession Contract with the European Commission to design, deliver, and operate the innovative, multi-orbit IRIS 2 sovereign connectivity system for a period of 12 years, with the network expected to provide services from the beginning of 2030. Infrastructure for Resilience, Interconnectivity and Security by Satellite (IRIS 2 ) will be European Union's (EU) preferred and trusted network to provide reliable, secure, and...

SpaceRISE, the consortium comprising Eutelsat, Hispasat and SES, has signed the agreement with the European Commission (EC) and the European Space Agency (ESA) that will see the consortium design, deliver and operate the Infrastructure for Resilience, Interconnectivity and Security by Satellite (IRIS²) for a period of 12 years. The contract was signed today in a ceremony at the European Commission headquarters in Brussels. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here:...

The Peruvian Air Force (PAF) is using SES’s high-throughput geostationary orbit (GEO) satellite solution to improve connectivity for its Air Force bases and enhance operations all over the country, SES announced today. Under the agreement, SES is providing a turnkey solution which includes delivery and installation of communications hardware, as well as training and enabling the PAF with SES-14 capacity to explore all the possibilities and improvements that the high-throughput satellite (HTS)...

SES’s wholly-owned subsidiary, SES Space & Defense, has been awarded a five-year Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) through Space Systems Command (SSC) with the help of the United States Space Force’s Commercial Satellite Communications Office (CSCO) with a ceiling value of USD 117 million in support of the United States European Command (USEUCOM) delivering multi-orbit, multi-band satellite capabilities. To meet enduring and emerging mission requirements in the USEUCOM Area of Responsibility...