Satellite News

SES announced that its Board of Directors approved a restructuring of SES’s go-to-market organisation model with the creation of two highly focused business units, SES Video and SES Networks, focusing on the video- and data-centric segments in which SES operates.

SES announced new satellite capacity deals with Gogo for high-speed inflight connectivity services on travel routes over the U.S. and Canada.

SES announced the addition of a powerful Digital Transparent Processor (DTP) onboard the SES-17 satellite.

3 April saw the first in a week of manoeuvres that will take Meteosat-7 to its ultimate resting place in graveyard orbit, about 300km above the geostationary ring.

Space Systems Loral (SSL) announced that it successfully completed the Systems Requirements Review (SRR) for the Restore-L project to demonstrate satellite servicing in Low Earth Orbit (LEO).

On 26 April, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft will make the first in a series of dives through the 2,400-kilometer wide gap between Saturn and its rings as part of the mission’s grand finale.