SES’s Next-Gen NGSO System Readies for Launch with 8 Initial O3b mPOWER Satellite Ground Stations
28 April 2021 - 8:50AM
Business Wire
Strategically located satellite ground stations
mean customers will be able to easily access high-performance
services
SES announced today that it has signed agreements with key
infrastructure service providers around the world to build its
eight initial O3b mPOWER satellite ground stations. Construction
has already started on these advanced technology satellite ground
stations, which will become operational in the second half of this
year. The eight sites will provide telemetry, tracking and control
capabilities to enable SES’s management of the constellation. They
will also be leveraged to raise the satellites into the right orbit
after the scheduled launches.
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As previously announced, two of the satellite ground stations
are located at Dubbo, NSW, Australia (operated by Pivotel) and
Thermopylae, Greece (operated by OTE). Other locations include
Merredin, Perth, Australia; Phoenix, Arizona, US; Chile; the United
Arab Emirates; Senegal as well as SES’s own satellite ground
station in Hawaii. Four out of the eight sites will be co-located
and operated with Microsoft’s Azure data centres; the one-hop
connectivity to the cloud from remote sites will provide O3b mPOWER
customers the ability to optimise business operations with
significant flexibility and agility.
O3b mPOWER is SES’s next-generation Medium Earth Orbit (MEO)
system. Building on the success of O3b, each of the 11
high-throughput, low-latency O3b mPOWER satellites will deliver
high-speed connectivity services from tens of megabits to multiple
gigabits per second, providing fibre-like connectivity to customers
globally.
The O3b mPOWER satellite ground stations have many technically
advanced features compared to the existing O3b satellite ground
station. They include a new generation of fast-install 5.5-metre
carbon fibre antennas which can be installed without the need for
expensive and time-consuming photogrammetry. In addition, they will
utilise energy-efficient solid-state power amplifiers, and a low
electrical load for the antenna control unit (ACU).
The satellite ground stations will use SES’s gateway management
system for automated operations and handovers, which will be
tightly integrated with SES’s unique resource management
capability, Adaptive Resource Control (ARC) and other SES software
sub-systems. With this configuration, SES will dynamically manage
and optimise space and ground resources to meet the changing needs
of its customers. These combined technology advances result in
improved efficiency and lower total cost of ownership.
The first three O3b mPOWER satellites are scheduled for launch
in the third quarter of this year, with the next three in the first
quarter of 2022. After orbit raising, O3b mPOWER will start
delivering services in the third quarter of 2022.
Stewart Sanders, Executive Vice President of Technology and O3b
mPOWER programme manager at SES, said, “We are thrilled to have
chosen these eight locations and construction is underway. We are
also deep in discussions with several telco players and operators
who are keen to have their own O3b mPOWER satellite ground station.
This is particularly exciting, as it means that SES’s provision of
a core network of command, control and data gateways will be
augmented with a number of customer satellite ground stations;
satellite ground stations provisioned according to our customer
needs, with regards to location, size and infrastructure
requirements. We expect a number of these customer satellite ground
stations to include virtualised installations of the cloud at the
edge of the deployed networks, thus improving the end-user
experience.”
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About SES
SES has a bold vision to deliver amazing experiences everywhere
on earth by distributing the highest quality video content and
providing seamless connectivity around the world. As the leader in
global content connectivity solutions, SES operates the world’s
only multi-orbit constellation of satellites with the unique
combination of global coverage and high performance, including the
commercially-proven, low-latency Medium Earth Orbit O3b system. By
leveraging a vast and intelligent, cloud-enabled network, SES is
able to deliver high-quality connectivity solutions anywhere on
land, at sea or in the air, and is a trusted partner to the world’s
leading telecommunications companies, mobile network operators,
governments, connectivity and cloud service providers,
broadcasters, video platform operators and content owners. SES’s
video network carries over 8,200 channels and has an unparalleled
reach of 361 million households, delivering managed media services
for both linear and non-linear content. The company is listed on
Paris and Luxembourg stock exchanges (Ticker: SESG). Further
information is available at: www.ses.com.
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