SES World Skies

SES WORLD SKIES, formerly SES NEW SKIES is a Dutch satellite operator based in The Hague and is part of the SES SA holding company. 2005, it had an annual turnover of about 240 million U.S. dollars. Currently, SES New Skies operates several geostationary satellites.

History

SES NEW SKIES went in 1998 as a spin-off under the name of New Skies Satellites NV from the time not yet privatized Intelsat forth. Join the Society was in Bermuda and was founded in 2000 on the stock exchange (NYSE, AEX: NSK) brought. In December 2005 the company was bought by SES Global and in September 2006 it was renamed SES New Skies.

In July 2008, SES announced the merger of its two subsidiaries, SES Americom and SES NEW SKIES, known under the leadership of Robert Bednarek. Bednarek since October 2006, President and CEO of SES NEW SKIES and after the merger by SES WORLD SKIES. On September 7, 2009, the new company name SES WORLD SKIES was announced.

Satellite

AMC fleet

All AMC satellites are positioned over America. Most cover large parts of North America.

NSS Fleet

This means that NSS -5, NSS -6, NSS -7, NSS - 9, NSS -10, NSS -11, NSS -12, NSS -703 and NSS -806 are still currently active spacecraft of the SES New Skies.

The satellite of New Skies work exclusively in the commercial frequency bands Ku-band and C-band. They are used for voice and data traffic as well as television broadcasts, and increasingly the Internet.

NSS- 8, with nearly six tons of payload, 92 transponders, nine C- and Ku-band spots, one of the largest commercial satellite ever, should be on 30 January 2007 with a Zenit- 3 -SL rocket from Sea Launch be started and replace NSS -703. Due to a malfunction of the rocket exploded lost on the launch platform and the satellite went. This is NSS -703 to remain in his position. Launched on 12 February 2009 new NSS-9 satellite to be positioned over the Pacific, so that NSS -5 are moved to position 57 ° East and NSS -703 can replace.

In May 2010, SES -7 was integrated at 108.2 ° Ost0108.2 in the network. These were around the former Protostar 2, which was acquired last year from the insolvent Protostar.