Issue 1 2017

10 LATIN AMERICA NEWS / Issue 1 2017 , SES-10 Satellite Fully Operational over Latin America SES-10, the first satellite to be launched using a SpaceX flight-proven rocket, will provide direct-to-home broadcasting, enterprise and mobility services. On May 15th, SES announced that the SES-10 satellite is now fully operational at 67 degrees West and will be serving the thriving markets in the Latin America region. SES-10 was launched on 30 March 2017 from NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre in Florida on board a flight-proven SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The satellite is the first geostationary commercial satellite ever launched on a flight-proven first-stage rocket booster. Since then, extensive in-orbit tests have confirmed the flawless functioning of the spacecraft. SES-10 was built by Airbus Defence and Space and is based on the Eurostar E3000 platform. The multi-mission spacecraft is the first SES satellite dedicated to providing service to Latin America and has a Ku-band payload of 55 36MHz transponder equivalents, of which 27 are incremental. SES-10’s high-powered beams will augment SES’s capabilities across the region and will provide direct-to-home broadcasting, enterprise and mobility services to Mexico, Central America, South America and the Caribbean. Pursuant to an agreement with the Andean Community (Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru), the satellite will operate as the Andean Community’s Simón Bolivar 2, providing satellite capacity for each Andean Member State. The Andean satellite project came from the shared Member States’ interest in having a common satellite network to take advantage of the Andean spectrum resources at 67 degrees West. SES is the world-leading satellite operator and the first to deliver a differentiated and scalable GEO-MEO offering worldwide, with more than 50 satellites in Geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO) and 12 in Medium Earth Orbit (MEO). Please visit this link for more details: www.ses.com