{"id":111794,"date":"2020-08-23T02:24:06","date_gmt":"2020-08-23T09:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/ses-taps-spacex-for-two-additional-falcon-9-launches"},"modified":"2020-08-23T02:24:06","modified_gmt":"2020-08-23T09:24:06","slug":"ses-taps-spacex-for-two-additional-falcon-9-launches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/ses-taps-spacex-for-two-additional-falcon-9-launches","title":{"rendered":"SES taps SpaceX for two additional Falcon 9 launches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ses-taps-spacex-for-two-additional-falcon-9-launches2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fleet operator SES on Aug. 20 said it selected SpaceX to launch four recently ordered O3b mPower broadband satellites.<\/p>\n<p>SES\u2019s four-satellite expansion order, announced Aug. 7, further increased its launch needs.<\/p>\n<p>SES has now grouped the satellites into trios for the first three Falcon 9 launches, scheduled for the third quarter of 2021, the first quarter of 2022, and the second half of 2022. The last two satellites are projected to launch in the second half of 2024. Each mission will take place from Cape Canaveral, Florida.<\/p>\n<p>The O3b mPower constellation is designed as a multi-terabit global network capable of aiming gigabits of Ka-band capacity at customers in aviation, government, energy and other sectors. The constellation builds off of SES\u2019s current O3b fleet of 20 satellites built by Thales Alenia Space.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Fleet operator SES on Aug. 20 said it selected SpaceX to launch four recently ordered O3b mPower broadband satellites.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement means SpaceX will launch all 11 of SES\u2019s O3b mPower satellites to medium Earth orbit across four Falcon 9 launches. Boeing is building all 11 mPower satellites.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/ses-taps-spacex-for-two-additional-falcon-9-launches\">Continue reading \u201cSES taps SpaceX for two additional Falcon 9 launches\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fleet operator SES on Aug. 20 said it selected SpaceX to launch four recently ordered O3b mPower broadband satellites. SES\u2019s four-satellite expansion order, announced Aug. 7, further increased its launch needs. SES has now grouped the satellites into trios for the first three Falcon 9 launches, scheduled for the third quarter of 2021, the first [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":580,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1490,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-government","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}