Satellite-Based Platform Enables Cost-Effective and Highly Reliable Applications for Data Transfer via Satellite
SES ASTRA, an SES company (Paris: SESG) (LuxX: SESG), announced today that it has entered into an agreement with EuroSkyPark, an operator of mobile and fixed satellite communication solutions, to offer a highly reliable, low-cost and bi-directional satellite communication service to the [...]

“Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV” or “HbbTV” Specification Aims at Harmonising Entertainment Delivery to the End Consumer through Broadcast and Broadband
27th August 2009 – A consortium of European television industry leaders announced today the launch of “Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV” or “HbbTV”, a major new pan-European initiative aimed at harmonising the broadcast and broadband delivery of [...]

Sat.1, ProSieben and kabel eins from January 2010 in High Definition on HD+
SES ASTRA, an SES company (Paris:SESG) (LuxX:SESG), has closed a contract with ProSiebenSat1 Media AG for its German group of channels, German Free TV Group, for the transmission of three free TV programmes in High Definition (HD). The channels Sat.1, ProSieben and [...]

UK distribution partner Eurosat to provide interactive satellite broadband to members of CLA throughout rural England and Wales
SES ASTRA, an SES company (Paris:SESG)(LUxX:SESG), has signed a cooperation agreement with Eurosat and the Country Land & Business Association (CLA), the membership organisation for owners of land, property and businesses in rural England and Wales, to [...]

A satellite carrying Europe’s first S-band payload – operated by Solaris Mobile – was successfully launched at Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The launch took place at 22:24 local time – 16:24 GMT, 18:24 CET – on April 3.
Dublin based Solaris Mobile, a joint venture between two of the world’s leading satellite operators, Eutelsat Communications [...]

Sub-Saharan African homes to receive quality free-to-air programming,
including VoxAfrica
CABSAT Dubai, 3 March 2009 – GlobeCast has today announced that its African DTH platform has successfully started transmissions on SES ASTRA’s Astra 4A (Sirius 4) satellite. African broadcaster VoxAfrica is one of the first channels to sign up for the new platform which provides sub-Saharan [...]

TV offer from French telecommunications operator Orange to be distributed from ASTRA’s prime position 19.2 degrees East
Betzdorf (Luxembourg) / Paris, 6 January 2009 – SES ASTRA, an SES company (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG), and GlobeCast, a subsidiary of France Télécom Group, announced the signature of a capacity contract with the French telecommunications [...]

SES ASTRA, an SES company (Paris:SESG)(LuxX:SESG), announced today that is has signed a cooperation agreement with LTO Commerce, the sales division of the Dutch Federation of Agriculture and Horticulture, to provide its members with SES ASTRA’s satellite-based two-way broadband service ASTRA2Connect. The cooperation is supported by the Chairman of the Dutch Parliamentary Commission for Agriculture. [...]

New digital business and lifestyle channel on 19.2 degrees East /
em24 to be broadcast free-to-air from Luxembourg
SES ASTRA, an SES company (Paris:SESG) (LuxX:SESG), today announced that em24, a digital business- and lifestyle channel, will start broadcasting on the ASTRA satellite system. As of today, the new channel will broadcast its German language programme free-to-air [...]

SES ASTRA, an SES company (Paris:SESG) (LuxX:SESG), announced today that the launch of its new satellite ASTRA 1M from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan is scheduled for 31 October 2008. ASTRA 1M will be launched on a Proton Breeze M launch vehicle provided by International Launch Services (ILS) and is the 7th ASTRA satellite to [...]