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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...

Regulatory News: 1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of existing shares to which voting rights are attached: SES S.A. 2. Reason for the notification: An acquisition or disposal of voting rights 3. Details of person subject to the notification obligation: Name: ATLAS Infrastructure Partners (UK) Ltd. City and country of registered office: UK 4. Full name of shareholder(s): The person is the same as the person subject to the notification (section 3) 5. Date on which the threshold...

Telebras has selected SES, along with other partners, to support the implementation of Brazil’s Electronic Government Program — Citizen Assistance Service (GESAC). The partnership between the companies enabled the implementation of the Managed Enterprise solution across more than 1,500 sites in public institutions, schools, libraries, telecenters, health units, indigenous villages and rural settlements across the country’s Northern Region. As part of SES’s Managed Enterprise solution...

SES announces today the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has validated the certification of SES’s Phase II accelerated C-band clearing and relocation activities. With this milestone, and following the successful completion of its Phase I activities in 2021 , SES has fulfilled its commitment to the FCC’s programme to clear a portion of the C-band to allow the rapid rollout of 5G services across the United States. With the help of trusted partners across the U.S., SES has completed...

SES S.A. announces financial results for the six months ended 30 June 2023. Key Highlights: Revenue of €987 million (+9.8% YOY as reported) Double digit Mobility growth driving Networks (+3.1% YOY (1) ); Video -3.5% YOY (2) with €350 million (3) of contracts signed Adjusted EBITDA (4) of €530 million (-2.7% YOY as reported) representing a margin of 54% 2023 financial outlook (5) re-affirmed (Revenue: €1,950-2,000 million; Adjusted EBITDA: €1,010-1,050 million) Launching a share buyback...

Agence France-Presse (AFP), a leading global news agency, is extending its partnership with SES, enabling its customers to continue leveraging the innovative AFPTV Live platform for real-time access to live news and events from around the world, both companies announced today. AFPTV Live, based on SES 360 , offers a platform that enables users to access AFP’s live video news feeds and deliver content to their news studios via IP in a simple and secure way. Customers can also plan their news...

DRS Global Enterprise Solutions (GES), acquired and now part of SES’s wholly-owned subsidiary SES Space & Defense, has been awarded a five-year X-Band Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) with an estimated value of USD 134 million in support of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). The single award BPA was awarded through Defense Information Systems Agency’s (DISA) Defense Information Technology Contracting Organization (DITCO) by the US Space Force. To deliver a near-global solution, SES Space...

SES announces today that discussions regarding a possible combination with Intelsat have ceased. On 29 March 2023, SES had confirmed that the company engaged in discussions with Intelsat and that there could be no certainty that a transaction would materialise. Follow us on: Twitter | Facebook | YouTube | LinkedIn | Instagram Read our Blogs > Visit the Media Gallery > About SES SES has a bold vision to deliver amazing experiences everywhere on earth by distributing the highest quality video...

Following Luxembourg Parliament’s approval and official publication of the Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) Global Services (MGS) programme valued at €195 million over 10 years, the MGS programme will leverage SES’s O3b mPOWER system to provide critical resilient satcom capabilities for Luxembourg, its partners and NATO in the areas of defence and security and disaster recovery, SES announced today. The MGS programme leverages the highly innovative O3b mPOWER satellite technology developed in...

SES announces today that Steve Collar, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), will be stepping down at the end of June 2023 to pursue other professional and personal endeavours. The search for a successor is underway and Ruy Pinto, currently Chief Technology Officer of SES, will assume the role of CEO until a permanent successor is announced. Frank Esser, Chairman of the SES Board of Directors, said, “We would like to thank Steve for his significant contribution to SES over a period of more than 20...

SES Space & Defense, a wholly-owned subsidiary of SES, today announced the availability of flexible, secure, and reliable satellite-powered network connectivity for AWS Modular Data Center. AWS Modular Data Center makes it easy for the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) to deploy modular data centers managed by Amazon Web Services (AWS) in infrastructure-limited locations. In February 2023, AWS announced the availability of AWS Modular Data Center to the DoD under the Joint Warfighting Cloud...

SES announced the results of its annual Satellite Monitor market research, a comprehensive survey that tracks satellite TV’s reach across a wide range of global regions and industry metrics. SES now delivers more than 8,000 channels to a total of 369 million TV homes worldwide, an increase of three million over the previous year, confirming SES’s position as a leading content connectivity provider in the media industry. The overall growth was driven primarily by increases in Europe (+6.3...

SES S.A. announces financial results for the three months ended 31 March 2023. Solid Q1 2023 performance and on track to deliver Full Year 2023 financial outlook Revenue of €490 million (+9.6% YOY as reported) including contribution from DRS Global Enterprise Solutions and stronger US dollar Differentiated Networks business +2.9% YOY (1) including double digit growth in Mobility €90 million in new business signed in Mobility since 31 March 2023, including significant wins in Aviation and...

The energy companies, government agencies, the telco companies and humanitarian aid organisations in Türkiye, the Middle East and Africa will soon be able to access high-performance, low-latency satellite-based connectivity services, Profen and SES announced today. The combined capacity and infrastructure agreements will see Profen, the global high-tech solutions company, deploy SES’s second-generation medium earth orbit (MEO) system – O3b mPOWER – and build a gateway in Türkiye to...

A group of European space and telecommunications players have come together to form a partnership to respond to the European Commission’s call for tender related to the future European satellite constellation IRIS² (Infrastructure for Resilience, Interconnectivity and Security by Satellite). IRIS² aims to bring a new secure and resilient connectivity infrastructure to European governments, businesses and citizens. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here:...