10 December 2007
The Hague, Netherlands
, December 10, 2007 – SES NEW SKIES, an SES company (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG) today announces three senior appointments which establishes its new management team following the completion of all post acquisition integration activities.
20 September 2007
The Hague, Netherlands - September 20
th, 2007: SES NEW SKIES, an SES company (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG), is pleased to announce that FRANCE 24 is now broadcasting across Africa on the NSS-7 satellite located at the orbital position of 338° East.
19 September 2007
The Hague, Netherlands and Miramar, FL - September 19, 2007: SES NEW SKIES, an SES company (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG), is teaming up with SeaMobile’s Maritime Telecommunications Network (MTN) product group for extensive field tests of new miniaturized VSAT antennas, which will enable an array of satellite-based communications services for small vessels.
31 July 2007
Hague, Netherlands – July 31
st, 2007 – SES NEW SKIES, an SES company (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG), today announced that AfSat, one of Africa’s largest VSAT companies, has contracted additional capacity on the NSS-7 satellite for its ‘iWay’ broadband via satellite services.
25 July 2007
The Hague, Netherlands, July 25
th, 2007 - SES NEW SKIES, an SES company (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG) today announced the launch of GSM backhaul services for Telikom Papua New Guinea on its NSS-5 satellite. Under a five year contract, Telikom PNG uses 36MHz of bandwidth on the NSS-5 spacecraft at the orbital location of 183° East.
12 July 2007
The Hague, Netherlands – July12, 2007 – SES NEW SKIES, an SES company (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG), today announced that Impsat, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Global Crossing, has contracted 90 MHz (equivalent to approximately 2.5 transponders at 36 MHz) on the company’s NSS-10 satellite at the orbital location of 322.5° East, in order to support Impsat’s growing Single Channel Per Carrier (SCPC) and VSAT IP network in Latin America.
18 June 2007
Betzdorf, Luxembourg / Douglas, Isle of Man, June 18, 2007 – SES, the world’s pre-eminent satellite operator (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG) today unveiled new groundbreaking satellite launch vehicle contracts covering the majority of the satellite launch requirements for the SES group from the period 2009-2013. These “multi-launch agreements” ensure that each SES satellite will have a primary as well as a back-up launch vehicle, each with two launch slots, providing utmost planning security and flexibility for the company’s ambitious launch schedule.
10 May 2007
Douglas, Isle of Man / The Hague, The Netherlands, May 10, 2007 - SES NEW SKIES, an SES company (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG) today unveiled plans to further enlarge its satellite fleet through a new spacecraft procurement with Space Systems/Loral a subsidiary of Loral Space & Communications (NASDAQ: LORL). The procurement of the NSS-12 satellite will be made by SES Satellite Leasing Ltd. and the satellite will be commercially operated by SES NEW SKIES. Terms of the procurement contract, the first by an SES company with Space Systems/Loral, remain confidential.
29 March 2007
The Hague, Netherlands / Douala, Cameroon - SES NEW SKIES, an SES company (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG), is pleased to announce that Cameroon’s leading media company, SPECTRUM GROUP, has launched its two free-to-air TV stations STV1 and STV2 on the NSS-7 satellite. Located at the orbital location of 338° East, NSS-7 can provide high-power Ku-band coverage of West, Central and Southern Africa.
15 March 2007
SES NEW SKIES, an SES company (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG), is pleased to announce that its NSS-5 satellite has been selected by the Office des Postes et Telecommunications of French Polynesia (OPT) to provide Internet trunking services to the 118 islands constituting French Polynesia.
5 March 2007
The Hague, The Netherlands,
5 March 2007 - SES NEW SKIES, an SES company (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG), is pleased to announce that the SES satellites AMC-12/ASTRA 4A and AAP-1 have been transferred to SES NEW SKIES which will now be responsible for all customer and capacity management activities associated with these satellites.
30 January 2007
The Hague, The Netherlands, January 30, 2007 - SES NEW SKIES, an SES company (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG) regrets to announce the failure of the launch of NSS-8, the sixth satellite in the SES NEW SKIES fleet, onboard a Zenith-3SL launch vehicle, and the resulting total loss of the satellite.
15 January 2007
The Hague, Netherlands, January 15, 2007 – SES NEW SKIES, an SES company (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG) and Sea Launch are initiating the final preparations for the launch of the NSS-8 communications satellite. Liftoff of the sixth satellite in the SES NEW SKIES fleet is planned at the opening of a 37-minute launch window beginning at 3:22 pm Pacific Standard Time (23:22 GMT) on January 25
th, 2007.