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  • SES Subsidiary to Provide Additional Beam for DoD Satellite Connectivity; Pete Hoene Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SES Subsidiary to Provide Additional Beam for DoD Satellite Connectivity; Pete Hoene Comments

    SES‘ government solutions subsidiary has received a five-year task order from the Defense Department to provide an additional satellite beam for government end-users to access real-time information. The company said Tuesday it will deliver an additional 432-megahertz satellite beam designed to operate at less than 200 milliseconds per roundtrip along with a full duplex link, gateway […] More

  • Space Systems Loral to Conduct On-Orbit Refuelling Service for SES Satellite - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Space Systems Loral to Conduct On-Orbit Refuelling Service for SES Satellite

    SES has entered an agreement with MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates to carry out a satellite life extension mission using an on-orbit refuelling spacecraft made by MDA’s Space Systems Loral subsidiary. The agreement will make SES the first commercial customer of the satellite refuelling service and will allow the company to activate the service when needed, SES said Wednesday. […] More

  • SES Completes UV Imaging Payload Integration on Communications Satellite - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SES Completes UV Imaging Payload Integration on Communications Satellite

    SES has integrated a NASA instrument payload equipped with an ultraviolet imaging spectrograph onto the company’s SES-14 geostationary communications satellite. The Global-Scale Observations of the Limb and Disk instrument’s spectrograph is designed to measure temperatures and densities in the Earth’s ionosphere and thermosphere to investigate ionospheric disruptions to navigation and communication transmissions, SES said Tuesday. SES-14 is built to provide C– […] More

  • Raytheon-Built GEO 6 Payload for FAA Navigation System Launched Into Orbit - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon-Built GEO 6 Payload for FAA Navigation System Launched Into Orbit

    A satellite payload that Raytheon developed for the Federal Aviation Administration‘s Wide Area Augmentation System took off onboard a Soyuz launch vehicle from Arianespace‘s space center in French Guiana. Raytheon said Monday the WAAS GEO 6 payload hosted on the SES-operated geostationary satellite – SES-15 – is a component of the WAAS system that works to provide […] More

  • SES Launches Boeing-Built Satellite to Provide In-Flight Connectivity Service - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SES Launches Boeing-Built Satellite to Provide In-Flight Connectivity Service

    SES has launched a Boeing-built satellite aboard a Soyuz rocket from the Guiana Space Center in French Guiana to deliver internet service to commercial, maritime and government customers. The SES-15 satellite is designed to support inflight connectivity and entertainment service providers such as Global Eagle Entertainment, Gogo and Panasonic Avionics as well as provide live TV coverage on flight routes across U.S., Canada, […] More

  • SES Unveils Satcom-Based Vehicle for Defense, Disaster Response Missions - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SES Unveils Satcom-Based Vehicle for Defense, Disaster Response Missions

    Luxembourg-based geostationary satellite operator SES has launched a satellite communication-based vehicle platform that works to provide high-speed connectivity and communication services in support of defense, humanitarian, commercial and civil missions. Nicole Robinson, corporate vice president of government market solutions at SES, said in a statement released Thursday the Rapid Response Vehicle is designed to provide multi-orbit, multi-band […] More

  • SpaceX Launches Falcon 9 Rocket With Reused Booster Into Orbit; Elon Musk Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SpaceX Launches Falcon 9 Rocket With Reused Booster Into Orbit; Elon Musk Comments

    SpaceX has launched a Falcon 9 rocket with a reused lower stage to deliver a communications satellite into orbit from NASA‘s Kennedy Space Center, Space.com reported Thursday. Irene Klotz writes the launch was the first reflight of a used orbit-class rocket booster and the second time it landed on SpaceX’s Of Course I Still Love You robotic drone ship at sea. […] More

  • Frost & Sullivan Report: Govt-Military Sector Accounts for 87% of US Satellite Service Spending - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Frost & Sullivan Report: Govt-Military Sector Accounts for 87% of US Satellite Service Spending

    A new report from Frost & Sullivan estimates the U.S. government and military sector currently accounts for 87.2 percent of the country’s overall satellite services spending. The research firm’s “U.S. Government and Military Satellite Market, Forecast to 2022” report also shows that SES and Intelsat have the biggest presence in the domestic military market with a combined 57.7 percent market share, Frost & Sullivan said […] More

  • Report Predicts US Govt, Military Satellite Market CAGR of 3.6% Through 2022 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report Predicts US Govt, Military Satellite Market CAGR of 3.6% Through 2022

    A Frost & Sullivan report, released by Research and Markets, forecasts the U.S. government and military satellite market will reach an average of $53.78 million in value at a compound annual growth rate of 3.6 percent over the next five years. Research and Markets said Friday the U.S. government accounted for approximately $1.34 billion of the overall global spending on commercial satellite […] More

  • SES Lands Managed Satcom Services Contract With Broadcasting Board of Governors - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SES Lands Managed Satcom Services Contract With Broadcasting Board of Governors

    A U.S. subsidiary of geostationary satellite operator SES has received a potential five-year, $15 million contract to provide managed satellite communications services for the Broadcasting Board of Governors. SES’ government solutions business will use its network of satellites to help BBG broadcast U.S. civilian content to international audiences as well as provide satellite connectivity to news […] More

  • SES-Luxembourg JV Secures Contract for NATO Ground Surveillance System Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SES-Luxembourg JV Secures Contract for NATO Ground Surveillance System Support

    A public-private joint venture of SES and Luxembourg has secured a contract to provide commercial satellite communications services for NATO‘s ground surveillance system. GovSat will deliver commercial Ku-band satellite capacity and capacity management services to support the command and control and sensor data communications needs of NATO’s Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicles across the AGS operational area, SES said […] More

  • SES Launches Surveillance Tool for Security Teams, First Responders; Nicole Robinson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SES Launches Surveillance Tool for Security Teams, First Responders; Nicole Robinson Comments

    Luxembourg-based geostationary satellite operator SES has introduced a portable platform designed to perform communications, surveillance and situational awareness functions during disaster response, border security and event monitoring missions. The SES-built Tactical Persistent Surveillance offering is based on an inflatable aerostat platform that carries communications and electro-optical sensor payloads at an altitude of up to 1,000 feet, SES […] More