SES Fleet
| Satellite | Location | Manufacturer | Model | Coverage | Launch date |
Launch vehicle |
Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Active: | |||||||
| SES-1 | 101°W | Orbital Sciences Corporation | STAR-2 | 24 C-band, (USA, Mexico, Caribbean, Canada, Central America) 24 Ku band, (USA, Southern Canada, Northern Mexico) |
24 April 2010 | Proton-M/Briz-M | Replaced AMC-2,AMC-4 previously at 101°W |
| SES-2 | 87°W | Orbital Sciences Corporation | STAR-2 | 24 C-band, (USA, Mexico, Caribbean, Canada, Central America) 24 Ku band, (USA, Southern Canada, Northern Mexico) |
21 September 2011 | Ariane 5-ECA | |
| SES-3 | 108.2°E | Orbital Sciences Corporation | STAR-2 | 24 C-band, (USA, Mexico, Caribbean, Canada, Central America) 24 Ku band, (USA, Southern Canada, Northern Mexico) |
15 July 2011 | Proton-M/Briz-M | Entering commercial service in March 2012. |
| SES-4 | 22°W | Space Systems/Loral | LS-1300 | 52 C-band, 72 Ku-band | 14 February 2012 | Proton-M/Briz-M | Entering commercial service in April 2012. Formerly known as NSS-14 |
| SES-5 | 5°E | Space Systems/Loral | LS-1300 | 24 C-band, 36 Ku-band, Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Features two Ku-band beams, one targeting the Nordic and Baltic regions, the other trained on sub-Saharan Africa. |
10 July 2012 | Proton-M/Briz-M | Entering commercial service summer 2012. Formerly called Astra 4B. |
| Planned: | |||||||
| SES-8 | 95°E | Orbital Sciences Corporation | STAR-2 | Q1 2013 | SpaceX Falcon 9 | First Falcon 9 launch to a geostationary orbit | |
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