SESSD Senior Vice President on the state of COMSATCOM in 2022 and what’s in store for 2023
2022 was a groundbreaking year for the COMSATCOM industry. From the deployment of critical satellite communications technologies during the Russian-Ukraine conflict in... Read More
Starting the Countdown to O3b mPOWER
Later this week, the first two of the eleven satellites that will eventually comprise the SES O3b mPOWER satellite constellation will launch... Read More
How AI/ML is the key to protecting the U.S. Army’s space assets
At last month’s Annual Meeting of the Association of the United States Army (AUSA), digital transformation took center stage as U.S. Army... Read More
Will the U.S. military shift away from WGS satellite in favor of NGSO solutions?
In our last article on the Government Satellite Report, we featured part one of our two-part interview with Jon Bennett, Vice President... Read More
TROJAN – Bringing Commercial Innovation to Army Intelligence Satellite Requirements
Earlier this month, SES Space and Defense announced that it had been awarded the U.S. Government TROJAN follow-on contract to provide satellite... Read More
Moving the Terminal from the Ground to Space – How COMSATCOM Will Enable the NASA Communications Services Project
As NASA lays the groundwork for the decommissioning of its legacy, agency-owned and operated Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS), the... Read More
NASA Selects SES Space and Defense to Support Near-Earth Communications
SES Space and Defense, in partnership with Planet Labs (Planet), has been awarded a Funded Space Act Agreement from NASA’s Communications Services... Read More
Satellite Managed Services Take Off with Successful SES-17 Launch
For decades, the United States government and military have leased commercial satellite capacity on what is often referred to as the “spot... Read More
U.S. Army Tests Multi-Orbit Solutions Leveraging MEO Capabilities Amid SES’ Upcoming O3b mPOWER Launch
SES Space and Defense supports the U.S. Army in conducting a series of cutting-edge trials and testing of commercial satellite constellations in... Read More
Steve Kitay of Microsoft Azure Space on the increasing integration between space and the cloud
In our last article on the Government Satellite Report, we sat down with Steve Kitay, the Senior Director of Azure Space at... Read More