O3b
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Boeing has delivered the first two O3b mPower satellites to SES, ready for launch by SpaceX in Florida. -
Digicel Pacific – now owned by Telstra – has extended its partnership with satellite company SES to provide resilient communications to Tonga, which was cut off by a volcano earlier this year.
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Christian Patouraux tells Alan Burkitt-Gray that his start-up, Kacific Broadband Satellites, provides cheaper and more effective satellite broadband than established companies. And adds that he’s planning a second, third, fourth and fifth satellite
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The company operating Vodafone-branded services in Papua New Guinea (PNG) has added a second satellite provider to support its rural coverage.
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Passengers and crew on Explora Journeys’ cruise ships will be able to pass their time with broadband from SES’s mPower satellites, the companies said today.
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Kazakhstan’s Kcell has successfully handed over 3G and 4G mobile signals between its terrestrial network and SES’s O3b satellites.
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NASA has signed a US$29 million deal with European operator SES that might lead to O3b mPower satellites providing services to US space missions.
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A venture capital investor has pumped US$50 million into a space start-up founded by Greg Wyler, previously of O3b and OneWeb.
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A rural carrier in Colombia has tied up with satellite company SES to improve coverage of small communities in its area.
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Satellite company SES has confirmed that it will be co-locating a number of the earth stations for its new range of satellites with Microsoft Azure data centres.
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Luxembourg satellite company SES is the latest to cosy up to the US military in its efforts to build market share.
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Eutelsat has spent US$550 million on a 24% stake in satellite company OneWeb, joining Bharti Global and the UK government — which each spent $500 million — as an equal shareholder.
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Four of the eight sites that will be used to manage Luxembourg-based SES’s new fleet of satellites will be co-located with Microsoft Azure data centres.
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A Pacific island of only 1,700 people now has fibre internet access after Vodafone Cook Islands signed a multi-year partnership for use of the Manatua Cable.
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European satellite company SES is to provide a business networking service to a local provider, RCS Communication.
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Luxembourg-based satellite operator SES will launch its next new O3b mPower series using SpaceX’s Falcon rockets from Cape Canaveral.
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Luxembourg satellite company SES has announced that its CFO, Andrew Browne, is to step down – and that it is looking for a successor.
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SES’s medium-orbit satellite business O3b will be launching the next four of its satellites from French Guiana on Thursday.
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