Press release

SES’s Ninth and Tenth O3b mPOWER Satellites
Successfully Launched
With these two satellites, the O3b mPOWER constellation continues to set the standard for
global connectivity

Cape Canaveral, 22 July 2025 – The latest pair of O3b mPOWER satellites was successfully
launched into space by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in
Florida, United States, at 5:12 pm local time, SES announced today. These two new satellites
enhance global coverage and bring incremental capacity to scale up services provided by SES’s
second-generation medium Earth orbit (MEO) system, O3b mPOWER.

Since becoming operational in 2024, the O3b mPOWER system has been successfully serving
mobility, government, enterprise and cloud customers around the world. The two satellites
launched today will join the eight O3b mPOWER spacecraft already in operation, offering services
ranging from tens of Mbps to multiple gigabits per second of capacity to any site.

The remaining three O3b mPOWER satellites are currently being manufactured and are
scheduled for launch in 2026. The additional O3b mPOWER satellites will bring up to a threefold
increase in available capacity by 2027 when the entire O3b mPOWER constellation is fully
deployed.

“I’m proud of our SES team and partners for continuously pushing the boundaries of what’s
possible in space to bring critical connectivity where it matters most. Over the past year, our O3b
mPOWER services have been transforming industries and empowering our key customers
including telco operators, cruise lines, airlines, NATO, the Government of Luxembourg, the
Government of United States and many other allied governments,” said Adel Al-Saleh, CEO of
SES. “With this launch we continue adding incremental capacity to our initial O3b mPOWER
constellation, strengthening our MEO network and delivering high throughput and predictable low
latency services at scale.”

For additional information on O3b mPOWER, visit the newsroom.

For further information please contact:

Suzanne Ong
SES, Communications
Tel. +352 710 725 500
suzanne.ong@ses.com


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