{"id":53259,"date":"2023-06-16T00:57:16","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T16:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/luxembourg-approves-funding-for-access-to-ses-o3b-mpower\/"},"modified":"2023-06-16T00:57:16","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T16:57:16","slug":"luxembourg-approves-funding-for-access-to-ses-o3b-mpower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/luxembourg-approves-funding-for-access-to-ses-o3b-mpower\/","title":{"rendered":"Luxembourg Approves Funding for Access to SES O3b mPOWER"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_318897\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-318897\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-318897\" src=\"https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/SES_Press_Release_O3b_mPOWER_image.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/SES_Press_Release_O3b_mPOWER_image.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/SES_Press_Release_O3b_mPOWER_image-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/SES_Press_Release_O3b_mPOWER_image-356x200.jpg 356w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-318897\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SES O3b mPOWER constellation. Photo: SES<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Luxembourg\u2019s Parliament approved funding for a new program for the country to acquire services from <b>SES<\/b>\u2019s O3b mPOWER for 10 years.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thursday\u2019s news marks the approval of the Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) Global Services (MGS) program announced earlier this year. It is valued at \u20ac195 million ($213 million) over 10 years, and gives Luxembourg and NATO partners access to the MEO constellation for resilient satcom defense and security and disaster recovery.<\/p>\n<p>The MGS program is possible through the U.S. and Luxembourg\u2019s 2022 partnership for commercially contracting satellite communications capabilities through the NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA).&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe welcome this important step in execution of Luxembourg Government\u2019s defense space strategy that will greatly enhance the national Defence\u2019s satcom capabilities\u2019 resilience,\u201d said Steve Collar, CEO of SES. \u201cO3b mPOWER contributes to building secure and sovereign networks as well as supporting critical missions of disaster recovery and response, and is fundamental for high-performance, resilient communications for Europe and NATO.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Collar is leaving SES at the end of this month and the operator is searching for a new CEO.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SES O3b mPOWER constellation. Photo: SES Luxembourg\u2019s Parliament approved funding for a new program for the country to acquire services from SES\u2019s O3b mPOWER for 10 years.&nbsp; Thursday\u2019s news marks the approval of the Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) Global Services (MGS) program announced earlier this year. It is valued at \u20ac195 million ($213 million) over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53259"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}