Insights

Our Chief Services Officer, John Baughn, has retired.We are bringing our Service Operations and Engineering departments together under our Chief Technology Officer, Ruy Pinto, to simplify our workloads and increase our responsiveness to our customers.

Due to its wide coverage and its immunity to rain fade, the C-band has been providing valuable services to communities all over the world for decades.

Thales’ FlytLIVE service powered by the SES-17 satellite is closing the inflight connectivity gap.

We stumbled upon the American Space Museum in downtown Titusville by chance. With hundreds of artifacts donated by individuals, astronauts, space workers and NASA - it was pretty clear that if you’re a space enthusiast… then THIS is the place to be!

One of the agenda items for the next World Radiocommunications Conference is to define the regulatory environment of inter-satellite links in the frequency bands 11.7-12.7 GHz, 18.1-18.6 GHz, 18.8-20.2 GHz and 27.5-30 GHz.

Ukraine-based General Manager, Sales CEE & CIS at SES on his personal and professional experience since the invasion of Ukraine a year ago, and the importance of delivering uninterrupted and critical services to Ukrainians across Europe.

Today’s consumers, businesses and governments expect connectivity everywhere - to be able to do video calls while on the road, post content on social media, have continuous access to cloud-based applications, and rely on always-on connectivity for disaster and emergency response.

Most people know that satellites “talk” to antennas on the ground and some spacecraft look outward to space, but not a lot of people know that satellites can also “talk” to each other.

Carlos Gutierrez, Portfolio & Segment

For governments around the world, carrying out ISR missions using a range of Remotely Piloted Aircraft System (RPAS) assets has become a critical way of gathering intelligence, and monitoring and managing operations. In fact, RPAS adoption by governments is increasing and the number of aircraft with satellite communications (SATCOM) in-service units is forecast by analyst firm NSR to reach over 10,000 by 2031.

Since its inception in 2019, AEW has garnered millions of fans across North America and around the globe—the majority of whom watch the live broadcasts from their living rooms. Yet, for these loyal fans, the TV experience packs the same emotional punches as the in-person shows.

There has been quite some buzz recently about how some new smartphones can now send emergency SMS messages from anywhere directly via satellite. While this is an exciting development, the truth is that satellites have long been building more inclusive digital societies around the world by expanding the reach of terrestrial mobile networks.