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Earlier this month, SES, Hughes, and ThinKom announced that the three companies successfully demonstrated multi-orbit satellite communications capabilities for airborne missions. Leveraging ThinKom’s ThinAir® Ka2517...

Asst. Secretary of Defense Dr. John Plumb on keeping pace in space with China

08 Mar 2023

When the U.S. Air Force and the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) were ordered to shoot down objects over American airspace earlier this month,...

How NGSO Satellite Delivered Needed Comms Following Hurricane Ian

02 Mar 2023

In late September of last year, one of the most powerful hurricanes to ever hit America made landfall on the western coast of Florida. Over...

The SES Space & Defense ICT Portal – Meeting Military Transparency and Network Management Requirements for Multi-Domain Operations

08 Feb 2023

In our last article on the Government Satellite Report, we sat down with Ram Rao, the Director of Business Development Engineering, Technologies and Solutions at...

Creating a Unified, Global Satellite Network to Power Joint, Multi-Domain Operations

26 Jan 2023

In a keynote address at the 2022 I/ITSEC Conference, General David W. Allvin, the Vice Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force, told attendees,...

SESSD Senior Vice President on the state of COMSATCOM in 2022 and what’s in store for 2023

12 Jan 2023

2022 was a groundbreaking year for the COMSATCOM industry. From the deployment of critical satellite communications technologies during the Russian-Ukraine conflict in Eastern Europe, to...

SPACECOM’s Gen. Dickinson examines the path to U.S. space superiority

04 Jan 2023

Last November, Gen. James H. Dickinson, Commander of the U.S. Space Command (SPACECOM) joined the Mitchell Institute for a special Schriever Spacepower forum dedicated to...

SES’ government arm changes name and announces new ICT Portal

21 Dec 2022

Last week, SES Government Solutions made two major announcements: that it will begin operating under the new name SES Space & Defense and that the...

Starting the Countdown to O3b mPOWER

15 Dec 2022

Later this week, the first two of the eleven satellites that will eventually comprise the SES O3b mPOWER satellite constellation will launch into space onboard...

How next-gen performance monitoring solutions will deliver greater visibility into DoD networks

28 Nov 2022

Earlier this month, the commercial satellite industry and senior military officials from around the world convened in London for the Global MilSatCom conference. During the...

How AI/ML is the key to protecting the U.S. Army’s space assets

10 Nov 2022

At last month’s Annual Meeting of the Association of the United States Army (AUSA), digital transformation took center stage as U.S. Army leadership and representatives...

Bears, foxes, and bull moose – the unique challenges of maintaining networks in Alaska

02 Nov 2022

In our last article on the Government Satellite Report, we sat down with Vickie Kelly, a business development manager at SES Space and Defense that...

Shortening the gap between the connectivity “haves” and “have nots” in Alaska

27 Oct 2022

The digital transformation of the government didn’t start with the COVID-19 pandemic. It predated it by years. However, the pandemic functioned to hit “fast forward”...

Top Air Force officials outline current space acquisition priorities at AFA 2022

19 Oct 2022