Ariane 5 ECA Performs Perfectly for Launch of 40th Spacecraft in SES Fleet
SES NEW SKIES, an SES company (Paris:SESG) (LuxX:SESG), announces that the NSS-9 satellite successfully roared into space onboard an Ariane 5 ECA booster from the European Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on February 12 at 7:09 p.m. local time (10:09 p.m. [...]

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 [...]

Browsers seen as gateway to next generation of targeting
Search Engine Strategies Chicago 2008
Privacy protection and collection of user data took center stage on Tuesday at SES Chicago 2008. In Battle of the Browsers: Personalization or Privacy at the digital marketing conference, panelists explored the popularity of certain internet browsers along with the delicate issue of [...]

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 S.A. (Paris:SESG) (LuxX:SESG), announced today that a new multi-mission satellite for the SES group, Sirius 5, has been procured by SES’ leasing company, SES Satellite Leasing Limited in the Isle of Man, from the satellite manufacturer Space Systems/ Loral, a subsidiary of Loral Space & Communications (Nasdaq:LORL). The new spacecraft will be deployed at [...]

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 [...]

PBS Heads List of Leading Programmers and Service Providers Leveraging the Reach of the Latest Addition to Global Fleet
Less than two months after the launch of its AMC-21 satellite, SES AMERICOM, an SES company (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG), today announced that the Ku-band spacecraft is operational and delivering content and connectivity [...]

Internet connectivity from ASTRA 5A at 31.5 degrees East
SES ASTRA, an SES company (Paris:SESG) (LuxX:SESG), today announced that, via its Nordic affiliate SES SIRIUS, it has contracted four transponders on its new orbital position at 31.5 degrees East to the Lithuanian satellite services provider SatGate. SatGate is using the capacity to provide broadband and [...]

Satellite Network Operations Centre
SES ASTRA, an SES company (Paris:SESG) (LuxX:SESG), announced today that its subsidiary SES ASTRA TechCom has been selected to deliver the Network Operations Centre for the new Vietnamese satellite system VINASAT. SES ASTRA TechCom shall deliver the Network Operations Centre to Vietnam Telecom International, which operates the VINASAT-1 satellite. The end-to-end [...]