SPACENEWS

• Study shows Satellite TV reception increases by 23% in Nigeria and 19% in Ghana in 2019 since the last study, conducted two years ago • SES currently reaches 35 million TV households across the African Continent Family watching television on sofa SES, the leader in global content connectivity solutions, has unveiled the results of Read More

Ethiopia’s first dedicated TV platform adds nine educational channels to enable continued learning amid COVID-19 school disruption Cropped shot of an affectionate young single father helping his son with his homework at home The Ethiopian Ministry of Education (MoE) and Regional Education Bureaus (REBs) with the support of UNICEF, Save the Children, and a leader Read More

SES S.A. announced today the successful launch and pricing of a bond offering in which it has agreed to sell senior unsecured fixed rate notes due in 2028 for a total amount of EUR 400 million. The notes will bear a Coupon of 2.00% per annum and were priced at 99.445% of their nominal value. Read More

Today, the European Commission and Japan are signing an agreement on civil aviation safety, which will further boost the EU's already strong cooperation with Japan and reinforce the competitiveness of the EU's aviation industry. This bilateral civil aviation safety agreement (BASA) will support EU manufacturers of aeronautical products to increase their trade and market share Read More

Perseverance is scheduled to launch from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 9:15 a.m. EDT July 20. It will land at Mars' Jezero Crater on Feb. 18, 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIWyFX0uxoc&feature=youtu.be Follow the road to launch for our next mission to the Red Planet, the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover. The Read More

Long-time SES employee Thai Rubin to succeed John Purvis as Chief Legal Officer while Ferdinand Kayser, CEO of SES Video, to retire at year end after nearly 20 years at the company SES today announced that Ferdinand Kayser, who has spent nearly 20 years at SES leading the video business and is presently the CEO Read More

RCS to offer superior service availability with SES Networks’ new intelligent SD-WAN service High angle shot of a hacker cracking a computer code in the dark RCS Communication, an ICT company in South Sudan, has adopted a Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) built upon SES Networks’ SD-WAN service that will enable RCS to deliver an Read More

United Launch Alliance (ULA) recently named Vernon Thorp as Director of Global Commercial Sales. In this position he will lead all commercial sales activities for Atlas V and the Company’s next-generation Vulcan Centaur rocket launching next year. “Vern brings a wealth of experience and expertise to this position,” said Tory Bruno, ULA’s president and CEO. Read More

Northrop Grumman and the Boeing Company to manufacture and assemble the C-band only satellites in Dulles, Virginia and in Los Angeles, California photo caption: Boeing/Artist’s Rendition of SES-20 and SES-21 satellites SES, the leader in global content connectivity solutions, announces it has selected two U.S. satellite manufacturers, Northrop Grumman and the Boeing Company, to deliver Read More

NASA leadership and a panel of scientists and engineers will preview NASA's next mission to the Red Planet, the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover, at a media briefing at 2 p.m. EDT Wednesday, June 17. The live briefing will stream on Facebook, Ustream, YouTube, Twitter, NASA Television and the agency's website. Perseverance is a robotic scientist Read More