57 Facts About SES SA

SES SA is one of the world's leading satellite owners and operators with over 70 satellites in two different orbits, geostationary orbit and medium Earth orbit .

SES SA's stock is listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and Euronext Paris with ticker symbol SESG and is a component of the LuxX, CAC Next 20 and Euronext 100 stock market indexes.

SES SA has been a major player in the development of the direct-to-home market in Europe and the cable TV and Direct-broadcast satellite markets in the United States.

In March 2022, SES SA reported that the breakdown of revenue to SES SA Video by different sectors was as follows:.

SES SA Networks provides managed connectivity services to customers in markets including telecommunications, Cloud computing, commercial air and shipping, holiday cruises, energy, mining, and government and institutional areas, with end users of the technology including internet users in remote regions, air and at sea travellers, windfarms, mines, defence and humanitarian missions.

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SES SA Networks delivers broadband connectivity for maritime vessels in any body of water or port in the world and in-flight services to aircraft ranging from secure cockpit communications to passenger connectivity and entertainment, through providers such as Global Eagle Entertainment, Gogo, Thales and Panasonic Avionics.

In March 2022, SES SA reported that the breakdown of revenue to SES SA Networks by different sectors was as follows:.

SES SA has pioneered many industry technological developments, including DTH transmission, co-location of satellites, free-to-air broadcast neighbourhoods, digital broadcasting, HDTV and 3DTV.

SES SA has helped develop innovative reception technology such as the first home dish LNBFs, Universal LNBs, optical fibre signal distribution and the Sat-IP system for receiving and distributing satellite signals over home computer networks.

SES SA has pioneered the broadcast of Ultra High Definition TV and helped to establish the international technical standards for UHDTV broadcast and reception.

SES SA first produced demonstration UHDTV broadcasts in 2012, transmitted the first HEVC-standard UHDTV in 2013, via Astra 19.

SES SA-8 was the first geostationary satellite to be launched by SpaceX.

SES SA operates the world's first multi-orbit communications satellite network, combining geostationary orbit satellites' wide coverage and reliability, and a medium Earth orbit satellite constellation's low latency and high data throughput.

In conjunction with Kythera Space Solutions, SES SA developed Adaptive Resource Control software to dynamically control and optimise power, throughput, and beam and frequency allocation across the multi-orbit network of the O3b and forthcoming O3b mPOWER medium Earth orbit satellite system, and SES SA-17 and future geostationary high-throughput satellites.

SES SA is the first commercial customer for Space Infrastructure Servicing future satellite life extension mission, following an agreement in June 2017 with MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates .

SES SA is managed by the Senior Leadership Team which comprises:.

SES SA was formed on the initiative and support of the Luxembourg Government in 1985 as Societe Europeenne des Satellites .

SES SA was the pioneer of 'co-location' by which several satellites share the same orbital position to provide mutual backup and increase the number of channels available to a fixed receiving dish, creating what became known as a 'satellite neighbourhood'.

In 1996, after the launch of Astra 1E, SES SA pioneered digital satellite transmission with the French Canal+.

In 1998, SES SA launched Astra 2A for the UK market, transmitting at the new orbital position 28.

From 1999, SES SA began a period of ambitious global expansion beyond its European home market.

Altogether, SES SA operated a fleet of 41 geostationary satellites, the largest in the world in 2001.

SES SA acquired services provider, Digital Playout Centre GmbH in 2005.

In 2007, SES SA divested from its holdings in AsiaSat and Star One in a complex transaction with General Electric which itself divested from SES SA.

Also in 2009, SES SA announced its investment in O3b Networks a project to build a medium Earth orbit satellite constellation to deliver high-speed, low-latency, fibre-like internet broadband trunking to the world's emerging regions .

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In February 2012, SES SA-4 was successfully launched to become SES SA' 50th satellite and the largest, heaviest and most powerful in the fleet.

SES SA-6 was launched from Baikonur, Kazakhstan on 3 June 2013 to 40.

In December 2013, SES SA-8 was launched from Cape Canaveral using a SpaceX Falcon 9 v1.

In May 2014 SES SA announced that the engineering services division, SES SA TechCom had joined with the Luxembourg Government and the Minister for Cooperation and Humanitarian Action, and five Non-governmental organisations – Archemed, Fondation Follereau, Friendship, German Doctors and Medecins Sans Frontieres to form Satmed, an eHealth platform to improve public health in emerging and developing countries, especially in remote areas with poor connectivity.

On 13 January 2015, SES SA announced that it plans to procure and launch a satellite in partnership with the Luxembourg Government, to be called GovSat-1.

In July 2016, SES SA announced that the acquisition was complete and that the merged company would be known as MX1.

In May 2017, SES SA announced the successful integration with the SES SA-14 satellite of the NASA Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk scientific hosted payload built by the University of Colorado Boulder Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics.

In June 2017, SES SA announced the start of a 30-month project by the Satellite and Terrestrial Network for 5G consortium for the seamless, and economically viable, integration of satellite into future 5G networks, improving the ubiquity, resilience and efficiency of 5G services, and opening new markets in media distribution, transport and underserved areas.

In September 2017, SES SA announced the next generation of O3b satellites and service.

In September 2019, SES SA announced it had partnered with satellite payload and network management systems developer, Kythera Space Solutions to develop the ARC software to enable the dynamic control and optimisation of power, throughput, beams and frequency allocation on O3b mPOWER, SES SA-17 and other future high-throughput satellites and their networks, autonomously optimizing space and ground resources, on-the-fly, in accordance with customers' changing needs.

In September 2019, SES SA became a Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute services partner to provide dedicated, private network connectivity from sea vessels, aircraft, and industrial or government sites anywhere in the world to the Azure cloud computing service, via both its geostationary and O3b medium Earth orbit satellites.

In September 2019, SES SA announced a new Free-to-view DTH platform on Astra 1N at 19.

In May 2020, SES SA released the results of the 2019 Satellite Monitor TV reception survey, which for the first time covered the Philippines.

On 26 May 2020, SES SA elected to clear a portion of the C-Band spectrum in the United States, currently used for satellite TV services, in accordance with the Federal Communications Commission order for the accelerated release of the 3.

In June 2020, SES SA announced that four new C-band satellites had been ordered for this purpose from United States manufacturers, Boeing and Northrop Grumman.

In July 2020, SES SA launched a free-to-air information channel, Fight COVID-19, across several satellites to combat the global coronavirus pandemic.

In February 2021, SES SA agreed multi-year extension capacity contracts worth over €66 million with European public service broadcasters including ARD, BBC, BVN, France 24, TV5Monde and ZDF.

In March 2021, the Luxembourg government further extended the contract with SES SA to provide the Satmed satellite eHealth platform to improve public health in remote areas of developing countries until 2024, with a €6.

In June 2021, SES SA joined the Amazon Web Services Direct Connect Delivery Partner programme, to provide customers access to AWS cloud-based applications and services from locations around the world with limited or no terrestrial communications, claiming to be the first satellite operator to do so.

In July 2021, SES SA entered into a capacity agreement with Indian public sector enterprise, NewSpace India Limited for 9 transponders on the SES SA-8 satellite at 95°E, for distribution of satellite TV services across India and the thriving direct-to-home market.

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SES SA-17 has an all-electric propulsion system and will reach its 67.

In November 2021, SES SA ordered two replacement satellites from Thales Alenia Space for launch in 2024 to SES SA's original orbital position at 19.

In November 2021, SES SA announced that wholly owned subsidiary HD+, the premium HD and UHD satellite TV service for German users, would start a new service, HD+ IP, in December 2021 to stream HD+ channels to viewers' TV sets through a smart TV app without the need for a dish or set-top box, for a subscription of €6 per month.

In February 2022, SES SA formed a joint venture with India's biggest telco, Jio Platforms .

In March 2022, SES SA announced a deal with mobile operator, Verizon to speed up deployment of 5G services in the US.

Under the agreement, SES SA will install filters and other equipment to Earth Stations across the entire country, to give Verizon access to the 3.

In March 2022, SES SA announced the agreement to acquire DRS Global Enterprise Solutions, a US-based subsidiary of defence contractor, Leonardo DRS for US$450 million.

In March 2022, SES SA extended the November 2021 order for two satellites from Thales Alenia Space with a third satellite, SES SA-26.

In May 2022, in conjunction with Kazakhstani mobile network operator, Kcell, SES SA used the O3b satellite constellation to demonstrate that medium Earth orbit satellites could be used to provide high-speed 3G and 4G connectivity to remote regions of Kazakhstan for reliable video calling, conferencing and streaming, and web browsing, with a latency five times lower than on the existing platform based on geostationary orbit satellites.

SES SA is active in the hosted payload market, selling space on planned and under-construction satellites to governments and institutions.

SES SA-2 carries the US Air Force's Commercially Hosted Infrared Payload, a wide field-of-view, passive infrared sensor to provide early warning of missile launches, the first time a US Air Force payload has been hosted on a commercial mission.

SES SA-15 includes the Federal Aviation Administration Wide Area Augmentation System air navigation aid to augment the Global Positioning System, with the goal of improving its accuracy, integrity and availability.