Engineering:List of SES satellites

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This is a list of satellites operated by SES S.A.

AMC fleet [1][2][3]

The AMC fleet was originally operated by GE Americom, acquired by SES Global in 2001. Americom was also operating the older Satcom fleet, whose last operating spacecraft were fully retired in the early 2000s.

;Legend:
  Active fleet
  Future launches
  Retired or lost
Satellite Location Manufacturer Model Coverage Launch date Launch vehicle Comments
AMC-4 135° W Lockheed Martin A2100AX 24 C-band, 20 watts
(USA, Canada, Mexico, Caribbean, Central America)
24+4 Ku-band, 110 watts
(USA, Canada, Mexico, Caribbean, Central America, South America)
13 November 1999 Ariane 44LP On August 5, 2022, replaced by the SES 22 satellite.
AMC-6 139° W Lockheed Martin A2100AX 24 C-band, 20 watts
(CONUS, Canada, Mexico, Caribbean, Central America)
24+4 Ku-band, 110 watts
(CONUS, Canada, Mexico, Caribbean, Central America)
22 October 2000 Proton-K/DM-2
AMC-8 135° W Lockheed Martin A2100A 24 C-band, 20 watts
(USA, Canada, Mexico, Caribbean)
19 December 2000 Ariane 5G On August 5, 2022, AMC 8 ends its life cycle and was replaced by the SES 22 satellite.
AMC-11 131° W Lockheed Martin A2100A 24 C-band, 20 watts
(USA, Canada, Mexico, Caribbean)
19 May 2004 Atlas 2AS[4] On December 1, 2022, AMC 11 ends its life cycle and was replaced by the SES 21 satellite.
AMC-15 105° W Lockheed Martin A2100AX 24 Ku-band,
(USA, Canada, Mexico, Caribbean)
12 Ka-band,
(USA, Canada, Mexico, Caribbean)
15 October 2004 Proton-M/Briz-M[5]
AMC-16 85° W Lockheed Martin A2100AX 24 Ku-band,
(USA, Canada, Mexico, Caribbean)
12 Ka-band,
(USA, Canada, Mexico, Caribbean)
17 December 2004 Atlas V (521)[6]
AMC-18 83° W Lockheed Martin A2100A 24 C-band, 20 watts
(USA, Canada, Mexico, Caribbean)
8 December 2006 Ariane 5 ECA[7] Replaced AMC-2 previously at 105° W.
AMC-21 125° W Thales Alenia Space/
Orbital Sciences
STAR-2 24 Ku-band, 110 watts
(USA, Southern Canada, Mexico, Caribbean)
14 August 2008 Ariane 5 ECA[8]
AMC-1 131° W Lockheed Martin A2100A 24 C-band, 12–14 watts
(USA, Mexico, Caribbean, Canada)
24 Ku-band, 60watts
(USA, Southern Canada, Northern Mexico)
8 September 1996 Atlas 2A
AMC-2 drifting Lockheed Martin A2100A 24 C-band, 12–18 watts
(USA, Mexico, Canada)
24 Ku-band, 60 watts
(CONUS, Northern Mexico, Canada)
30 January 1997 Ariane 4L was co-located with AMC-4
AMC-3 87° W Lockheed Martin A2100A 24 C-band, 12–18 watts
(USA, Mexico, Canada, Caribbean)
24 Ku-band, 60 watts
(USA, Mexico, Canada, Caribbean)
4 September 1997 Atlas 2AS
AMC-5 drifting Alcatel Space Spacebus 2000 16 Ku-band, 55 watts
(CONUS, South Canada, Northern Mexico)
28 October 1998 Ariane 4L Retired in May 2014.[9]
AMC-7 drifting Lockheed Martin A2100A 24 C-band, 20 watts
(USA, Canada, Mexico, Caribbean)
14 September 2000 Ariane 5G Backup to AMC-10[10]
AMC-9 drifting Alcatel Space Spacebus 3000B3 24 C-band, 20 watts,
(CONUS, Canada, Mexico, Caribbean, Central America)
24 Ku-band, 110 watts
(CONUS, Mexico)
7 June 2003 Proton-K/Briz-M[11] Anomaly on-orbit, satellite lost control and appeared to be breaking apart.[12]
AMC-10 drifting Lockheed Martin A2100A 24 C-band, 20 watts
(USA, Canada, Mexico, Caribbean)
5 February 2004 Atlas 2AS[13]
AMC-14 61.5° W Lockheed Martin A2100 32 Ku-band, 150 watts 14 March 2008 Proton-M/Briz-M Wrong orbit[14]

Astra fleet

NSS fleet[1][2][3]

This fleet came from the acquisition of New Skies Satellites in 2005, which itself had inherited 5 satellites from Intelsat in 1998.

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  Future launches
  Retired or lost
Satellite Location Manufacturer Model Coverage Launch date Launch vehicle Comments
NSS-6 169.5° W Lockheed Martin A2100AX 50 Ku-band transponders to cover Asia, Australia, Africa, Middle East and 12 Ka-band super high gain uplink beams
DTH services to Asia, especially India.
17 December 2002 Ariane 4L
NSS-7 20° W Lockheed Martin A2100AX 36 C-Band and 36 Ku-band transponders
Video broadcast covering South America and Africa
16 April 2002 Ariane 4L Originally at 22°W
NSS-9 177° W Orbital Sciences STAR-2.[15] 44 C-band transponders
Pacific Ocean: transcontinental video, voice and Internet; local service to Pacific islands
12 February 2009 Ariane 5 flight V187[16]
NSS-10 37.5° W Thales Alenia Space Spacebus 4000C3 49 C-band transponders
Americas, Europe and Africa; telecom and VSAT operators.
3 February 2005 Proton-M/Briz-M[17] Formerly known as AMC-12/Astra 4A[18]
NSS-11 176° E Lockheed Martin A2100AX 28 Ku-band transponders
DTH voice, video and data in India, China and Philippines.
1 October 2000 Proton-K/DM-2M Formerly known as AAP-1, GE 1A or WorldSat-1[18]
NSS-12 57° E Space Systems/Loral FS-1300 40 C-band and 48 Ku-band active high-power transponders
Mobile backhaul services over the Middle East and Europe, Central and South Asia and East Africa.
29 October 2009 Ariane 5 ECA[19]
NSS-5 50.5° E Lockheed Martin AS-7000 38 C-band, 12 Ku-band
Pacific Ocean region, shared capacity with Intelsat.
23 September 1997 Ariane 42L Formerly known as NSS-803, launched as Intelsat 803. Moved from 183° E to 57° E to cover NSS-703's service area until NSS-12 launched on 29 October 2009. Moved to 22° W and then 20° W as part of a swapout plan with NSS-7 and SES-4 that was to be completed by June 2012. Finally moved to 50.5° E in September 2012.
NSS-513 177° W Ford Aerospace 18 May 1988 Ariane 2 Launched as Intelsat 513. Retired
NSS-703 47° W Space Systems/Loral LS-1300 Originally at 57° E. 6 October 1994 Atlas 2AS Traffic moved to NSS-12 in January 2010,[20] satellite retired in October 2014.[21]
NSS-806 47° W Lockheed Martin AS-7000 28 C-band and 3 Ku-band transponders to cover Latin America, Iberian peninsula, Canary Islands, Western Europe and much of Eastern Europe. 27 February 1998 Atlas 2AS Launched as Intelsat 806 at 40.5° W. Replaced by SES-6 in June 2013 and moved to 47° W
European beams retired, remaining C-band Hemi beam and Ku-band Spot beam cover South America only[22]
NSS-K 183° E Lockheed Martin AS-5000 Originally at 21.5° W. 9 June 1992 Atlas 2A Retired
NSS-8 57° E (planned) Boeing BSS-702 30 January 2007 Zenit-3SL Rocket exploded on pad.[23]

SES fleet

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  Future launches
Satellite Location Manufacturer Model Coverage Launch
date
Launch
vehicle
Comments
SES-1 101° W Orbital Sciences Corporation STAR-2 24 C-band,
(USA, Mexico, Caribbean, Canada, Central America)
24 Ku-band,
(USA, Southern Canada, Northern Mexico)
24 April 2010 Proton-M / Briz-M[24] Replaced AMC-2, AMC-4 previously at 101° W.
SES-2 87° W Orbital Sciences Corporation STAR-2 24 C-band,
(USA, Mexico, Caribbean, Canada, Central America)
24 Ku-band,
(USA, Southern Canada, Northern Mexico)
21 September 2011 Ariane 5 ECA Replaced AMC-3 previously at 87° W.
SES-3 103° W Orbital Sciences Corporation STAR-2 24 C-band,
(USA, Mexico, Caribbean, Canada, Central America)
24 Ku-band,
(USA, Southern Canada, Northern Mexico)
15 July 2011 Proton-M / Briz-M Entering commercial service in March 2012.
SES-4 22° W Space Systems/Loral LS-1300 52 C-band, 72 Ku-band 14 February 2012 Proton-M / Briz-M Entering commercial service in April 2012. Formerly known as NSS-14.
SES-5 5° E Space Systems/Loral LS-1300 24 C-band, 36 Ku-band,
Europe, Africa and the Middle East.
Two Ku-band beams targeting Nordic/Baltic regions, and sub-Saharan Africa.
10 July 2012 Proton-M / Briz-M Entering commercial service summer 2012. Formerly called Astra 4B.
SES-6 40.5° W Astrium Eurostar E3000 43 C-band, 48 Ku-band.
(North America, Latin America, Europe, Atlantic Ocean)
3 June 2013 Proton-M / Briz-M Replaced NSS-806
SES-7 108.2° E Boeing Satellite Systems Boeing 601HP 22 Ku-band, 10 S-band.
(South Asia, Asia Pacific)
16 May 2009 Proton-M / Briz-M Formerly known as IndoStar 2 / ProtoStar 2.
SES-8 95° E Orbital Sciences Corporation STAR-2 Up to 33 Ku-band.
(South Asia, Asia Pacific)
3 December 2013 Falcon 9 v1.1 First Falcon 9 launch to a geostationary orbit.[25][26]
SES-9 108.2° E Boeing Satellite Systems Boeing 702HP 81 Ku-band.
(South Asia, Asia Pacific)
from position 108.2° E[27]
4 March 2016 Falcon 9 Full Thrust Second launch of Falcon 9 Full Thrust. Co-located with the SES-7 satellite.
SES-10 67° W Airbus Defence and Space Eurostar E3000 60 Ku-band
(Latin America)[28]
30 March 2017 Falcon 9 Full Thrust
SES-11 / EchoStar 105 105° W Airbus Defence and Space Eurostar E3000 24 Ku-band, 24 C-band
(North America, Latin America and the Caribbean)[29]
11 October 2017 Falcon 9 Full Thrust Replaced AMC-15 and AMC-18[29]
SES-12 95° E Airbus Defence and Space Eurostar E3000 54 Ku-band
(South Asia, Asia-Pacific)[30]
4 June 2018[31] Falcon 9 Full Thrust Replaced NSS-6; co-located with SES-8[30]
SES-14 47.5° W Airbus Defence and Space Eurostar E3000 20 Ku-band HTS, 28 C-band
(Americas and North Atlantic)[32]
25 January 2018[33] Ariane 5 ECA Will replace NSS-806 and add capacity.[32] Hosts NASA's Global-Scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD) instrument payload.[34]
SES-15 129° W Boeing Satellite Systems Boeing 702SP 16 Ku-band
(North America, Latin America, Caribbean)[35]
18 May 2017[36] Soyuz-STA / Fregat-M Combines wide beams and HTS multi-spot beams[35]
SES-16 / GovSat-1 21.5° E Orbital ATK GEOStar-3 Military X-band and Ka-band[37] 31 January 2018[38] Falcon 9 Full Thrust Communications services for the government of Luxembourg[37][39]
SES-17 67.1° W Thales Alenia Space Spacebus Neo High Throughput Ka-band[40] 24 October 2021[41] Ariane 5 ECA Connectivity services over the Americas optimized for commercial aviation. In position and fully operational June 2022.[42]
SES-18 103° W Northrop Grumman GEOStar 3 C-band 17 March 2023[43] Falcon 9 Block 5 Entered service in June 2023, replacing SES-3.
SES-19 135° W Northrop Grumman GEOStar 3 C-band 17 March 2023[43] Falcon 9 Block 5
SES-20 103° W Boeing Boeing 702SP C-band 4 October 2022[44] Atlas V 531
SES-21 131° W Boeing Boeing 702SP C-band 4 October 2022[44] Atlas V 531 On December 1, 2022, it began operations and replaced the AMC 11 satellite.
SES-22 135° W Thales Alenia Space Spacebus 4000B2 C-band 29 June 2022[45] Falcon 9 Block 5 On August 5, 2022, it began operations and replaced the AMC 8 satellite.
SES-23 Thales Alenia Space Spacebus-4000B2 C-band Unknown[43] TBA
SES-24 19.2° E Thales Alenia Space Spacebus-NEO 200 Ku-band Early 2024 Falcon 9 Block 5 Also known as Astra 1P
SES-26 Thales Alenia Space Space Inspire Ku-band, C-Band 2024[46] TBA

O3b fleet

The O3b fleet was initially owned and operated by O3b Networks, which became a wholly owned subsidiary of SES S.A. in 2016[47] Orbiting in Medium Earth orbit (MEO), the first generation satellites are sometimes referred to as "O3b MEO" to more clearly distinguish them from the forthcoming second generation O3b mPOWER constellation (to launch 2022–2024, and start service in Q3 2023).[48][49][50][51].

Name NORAD ID Int'l Code Launch Date Launch Vehicle Period (min)
O3B PFM 39191 2013-031D 25 June 2013 Soyuz ST-B (VS05) 287.9
O3B FM2 39190 2013-031C 25 June 2013 Soyuz ST-B (VS05) 287.9
O3B FM3 40082 2014-038D 10 July 2014 Soyuz ST-B (VS08) 287.9
O3B FM4 39189 2013-031B 25 June 2013 Soyuz ST-B (VS05) 287.9
O3B FM5 39188 2013-031A 25 June 2013 Soyuz ST-B (VS05) 287.9
O3B FM6 40080 2014-038B 10 July 2014 Soyuz ST-B (VS08) 287.9
O3B FM7 40081 2014-038C 10 July 2014 Soyuz ST-B (VS08) 287.9
O3B FM8 40079 2014-038A 10 July 2014 Soyuz ST-B (VS08) 287.9
O3B FM9 40351 2014-083D 18 December 2014 Soyuz ST-B (VS10) 287.9
O3B FM10 40348 2014-083A 18 December 2014 Soyuz ST-B (VS10) 287.9
O3B FM11 40349 2014-083B 18 December 2014 Soyuz ST-B (VS10) 287.9
O3B FM12 40350 2014-083C 18 December 2014 Soyuz ST-B (VS10) 287.9
O3B FM13 43234 2018-024D 9 March 2018 Soyuz ST-B (VS18) 287.9
O3B FM14 43233 2018-024C 9 March 2018 Soyuz ST-B (VS18) 287.9
O3B FM15 43231 2018-024A 9 March 2018 Soyuz ST-B (VS18) 287.9
O3B FM16 43232 2018-024B 9 March 2018 Soyuz ST-B (VS18) 287.9
O3B FM17 44114 2019-020C 4 April 2019 Soyuz ST-B (VS22) 287.9
O3B FM18 44115 2019-020D 4 April 2019 Soyuz ST-B (VS22) 287.9
O3B FM19 44113 2019-020B 4 April 2019 Soyuz ST-B (VS22) 287.9
O3B FM20 44112 2019-020A 4 April 2019 Soyuz ST-B (VS22) 287.9
O3b mPOWER 1
(O3b FM21)
54755 2022-174A 16 December 2022 Falcon 9 Block 5 288
O3b mPOWER 2
(O3b FM22)
54756 2022-174B 16 December 2022 Falcon 9 Block 5 288
O3b mPOWER 3
(O3b FM23)
56368 2023-059B 28 April 2023 Falcon 9 Block 5 287
O3b mPOWER 4
(O3b FM24)
56367 2023-059A 28 April 2023 Falcon 9 Block 5 288
O3b mPOWER 5
(O3b FM25)
2023-175_ 12 November 2023 Falcon 9 Block 5 In transit to MEO
O3b mPOWER 6
(O3b FM26)
2023-175_ 12 November 2023 Falcon 9 Block 5 In transit to MEO

[52][53]

Third-party satellites

SES also manages some transponders on a few third-party satellites under joint operating agreements.

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  Active fleet
Satellite Location Manufacturer Model Coverage Launch date Launch vehicle Comments
Ciel-2 129° W Thales Alenia Space Spacebus 4000C4 32 Ku-band transponders
HDTV for North America
10 December 2008 Proton-M/Briz-M
MonacoSAT 52° E Thales Alenia Space Spacebus 4000C2 12 Ku-band transponders
HDTV for Middle East and North Africa
27 April 2015 Falcon 9 v1.1 Satellite shared with the Turkmenistan National Space Agency
QuetzSat 1 77° W Space Systems/Loral LS-1300 32 Ku-band transponders
HDTV for Mexico, USA and Central America.
29 September 2011 Proton-M/Briz-M
Yahsat 1A 52.5° E EADS Astrium Eurostar E3000 14 active C-band transponders, 25 Ku-band, 21 secure Ka-band
Broadcast TV for Europe, Middle East, North Africa
22 April 2011 Ariane 5 ECA

See also

  • SES S.A.
  • SES Americom
  • SES Astra
  • SES Sirius
  • List of broadcast satellites

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