The Importance of Multi-Orbit, Multi-Band COMSATCOM for the DoD
In our last article on the Government Satellite Report, we sat down with Bill Milroy, the CTO and Co-Founder of ThinKom, to... 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
What the SES acquisition of DRS GES means for the satellite industry
Earlier this month, SES announced that it had closed its acquisition of DRS Global Enterprise Solutions (GES) from Leonardo DRS, a deal... Read More
SES-17 is Fully Operational – What that Means for the Government and Military
In late June of this year, SES announced that its latest satellite in Geostationary orbit (GEO) – SES-17 – was fully operational... 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
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
Leonardo DRS Announces Sale of Global SATCOM Business to SES
Leonardo DRS Inc. has signed a definitive agreement to sell its Global Enterprise Solutions (GES) business to SES for $450 million. The... 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
OQ Technology discusses the role of satellite in government IoT initiatives
The digital transformation and modernization efforts that we’re seeing across the government and military involve the adoption of more than just one... Read More
Recent testing by Hughes and SES shows switching signals between GEO, MEO, and LEO satellites no longer science fiction
In September of 2021, SES and Hughes announced that they had successfully utilized the Hughes Resource Management System to seamlessly switch signals... Read More