The company capitalizes on its strong legacy, while also making innovation a key to its strategy. The 200 kg, 500-watt payload then will travel to SES-16 and attach itself.Please make a donation to support Gunter's Space Page. Fulfilling universal service obligations

The port will be the support structure for an unidentified hosted payload to be launched on a future SES satellite and then released in the vicinity of SES-16. Together with Ethiopian broadcasters, we’re enabling viewers nationwide to access local content

The satellite will be built on Orbital's GEOStar-3 bus. SES-8 is a geostationary communication satellite operated by SES S.A. SES-8 was successfully launched on SpaceX Falcon 9 v1.1 on 3 December 2013, 22:41:00 UTC.. Another SES subsidiary, MX1, is a leading media service provider and offers a full suite of innovative digital video and media services. Our first geostationary Ka-band satellite with this next generation DTP is a keystone in SES’s unique satellite architecture. “Consumption of data has evolved dramatically over the years and will continue to do so.

Engaging TV subscribers across Latin America with compelling content Case study Thales Alenia Space has built up unrivaled expertise in dual (civil-military) missions, constellations, flexible high-throughput payloads, altimetry, meteorology, and high-resolution radar and optical observation.

SES and Thales Unveil Next-Generation Capabilities Onboard SES-17 . Improving e-Health access and services

With FlytLIVE, passengers will enjoy full internet connectivity, including the ability to stream internet services for video, games, social media and live television, creating an immersive and engaging experience in the air.”SES is the world-leading satellite operator and the first to deliver a differentiated and scalable GEO-MEO offering worldwide, with more than 50 satellites in Geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO) and 12 in Medium Earth Orbit (MEO). Thales Alenia Space posted consolidated revenues of about 2.4 billion euros in 2016 and has 7,980 employees in nine countries. SES-17, which was procured in September 2016, will cover North America, South America, Central America, the Caribbean and the Atlantic Ocean, and is expected to be delivered in 2020.Equipped with close to 200 spot beams of mixed sizes, the fully digital SES-17 spacecraft will provide mobility customers with an unsurpassed ability to efficiently and flexibly modify their networks in real time in response to changing bandwidth demands, either on a daily schedule or in response to unanticipated changes such as weather. A joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), Thales Alenia Space also teams up with Telespazio to form the parent companies’ “Space Alliance”, which offers a complete range of services and solutions. Take your story anywhere. Case study LUXEMBOURG, 4 April 2017 – SES (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG) and Thales Alenia Space (TAS) today announced the addition of a powerful Digital Transparent Processor (DTP) onboard the SES-17 satellite which will allow SES to offer its mobility customers extraordinary efficiency and unrivalled flexibility in bandwidth management capabilities.SES-17’s next-generation fully digital payload has been jointly optimised by SES and Thales Alenia Space over the past year, making the satellite even more attractive to customers in the highly competitive mobility market, as well as other fast growing enterprise markets. SES-11 / EchoStar 105 is a geostationary communications satellite operated by SES S.A. and designed and manufactured by Airbus Defence and Space.It has a mass of 5,200 kilograms (11,500 lb) and has a design life of at least 15 years. Written on 04 Apr 2017. The Luxembourg government has pre-committed to a significant amount of capacity on the new satellite in support of its NATO obligations; the remaining capacity will be made available to governmental and institutional customers.SES-16/GovSat 1 will feature a special port, which allows a hosted payload to dock with it in orbit. Together with Ethiopian broadcasters, we’re enabling viewers … We push for breakthroughs in connectivity and their impact for people worldwide.

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